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ˈloan-ˌoffice
1. An office for lending money to private borrowers.
1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5859/9 Subscriptions for erecting..Loan-Offices, Publick Treasuries, &c. pretending to assist the Poor. 1732New Jersey Archives (1894) XI. 304 Purchasing New-Jersey Currency and keeping it up till they could make an Advantage of it by imposing upon the Poor, who were in necessity of it to pay into the Loan-Office. 1897Daily News 8 May 4/7 Indictments charging against four prisoners loan-office and turf frauds.
2. An office for receiving subscriptions to a government loan.
1777J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 45 The design of loan-offices was to prevent the farther depreciation of the bills by avoiding farther emissions. 1779Franklin Wks. (1888) VI. 428 The interest..is payable only at the loan office in America from whence the bills issued. 1865H. Phillips Amer. Paper Curr. II. 55 Congress..erected a Loan Office in each of the United States.
attrib.1781Franklin Wks. (1888) VII. 178 Accepted a number of loan-office bills this day.
So ˈloan-ˌofficer (U.S.), an official charged with the duty of receiving subscriptions to a government loan.
1737Col. Laws N. York (1895) II. 1040 An Act to facilitate and Explain the duty of the Loan officers in this Colony. 1790J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 571 The loan officers or collectors, or some other known character, will have this additional duty annexed to him. |