Meaning

1 senses
  1. A small loan, especially one extended to a poor person as part of a microcredit program of such lending intended to alleviate poverty.

    He got a one hundred dollar microloan.

    Mikrokredit

    микрокреди́тmikrokredít

    мікропозикаmikropozyka, мікрокреди́тmikrokredýt

Translations

4 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
small loan given to a poor person to enable him to become self-employed:
Русский
By meaning 1
small loan given to a poor person to enable him to become self-employed:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
small loan given to a poor person to enable him to become self-employed:

Origin

From micro- + loan.

From micro- + loan.

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Forms

plural: microloans
Singularmicroloan
Pluralmicroloans

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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