lender
Provides loans professionally
A lender is a person or institution that loans money to borrowers, typically with expectation of repayment plus interest.
Banks, credit unions, and mortgage companies are common lenders.
The term also applies to anyone who lends anything: The lender of the car wanted it back by Friday.
One providing loans
- pawnbrokerLender against personal property
- usurerLender demanding excessive interest
- microfinanceSmall loans for poor entrepreneurs
- peer-to-peerServerless network architecture
crowdfunding · angel investor · venture capitalist · backer · financier · benefactor · patron · Shylock
Recognition or payment deferral
- interestAttention, stake, or fee
- principalChief school administrator
- capitalWealth used for investment
- fundingSupplying monetary resources
debt · leverage · liquidity · advance · line of credit · installment · disbursement · repayment
One who takes temporarily
- creditorOne owed money
- debtorOne who owes
- guarantorOne pledging another's obligation
- co-signerJoint debt guarantor
mortgagee · obligee · lienholder · noteholder · assignee · servicer · collection · default
Place holding deposits
- credit unionMember-owned financial cooperative
- mortgage companyFirm providing property loans
- building societyMember-owned mortgage institution
- financial institutionCompany managing money services
commercial bank · thrift · branch · underwriter · originator
moneylender
One providing loans
- pawnbrokerLender against personal property
- usurerLender demanding excessive interest
- microfinanceSmall loans for poor entrepreneurs
peer-to-peer · crowdfunding · angel investor · venture capitalist · backer · financier · benefactor · patron · Shylock · pawnshop
credit
Recognition or payment deferral
- interestAttention, stake, or fee
- principalChief school administrator
- capitalWealth used for investment
funding · debt · leverage · liquidity · advance · line of credit · installment · disbursement · repayment · amortization
borrower
One who takes temporarily
co-signer · mortgagee · obligee · lienholder · noteholder · assignee · servicer · collection · default · foreclosure
bank
Place holding deposits
- credit unionMember-owned financial cooperative
- mortgage companyFirm providing property loans
- building societyMember-owned mortgage institution
financial institution · commercial bank · thrift · branch · underwriter · originator
- financial rolesinvestor, borrower, creditor, debtor, banker
- mortgagesfixed-rate mortgage, mortgage broker, adjustable-rate mortgage, mortgage payment, mortgage insurance
- financiersfinancier, investor, banker, capitalist, backer
- legal partiesassignee, assignor, creditor, debtor, beneficiary
- foreclosureforeclosure auction, forced sale, foreclosure prevention, foreclosure notice, foreclosure sale
- loan partiesborrower, cosigner, creditor, debtor, mortgagee
- lend a handOffer assistance to someone
- lending a handProviding assistance to another
- lend an earListen with sympathy
- lend a helping handVolunteer one's assistance
- lending an earListening attentively to someone
- lend itself toBe suitable for