captive finance company

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   a finance company owned by a manufacturer to finance dealers' inventories or to make loans to consumers buying the company's products

   Broaderfinance company

Questions about captive finance company

What does captive finance company mean?

captive finance company means "a finance company owned by a manufacturer to finance dealers' inventories or to make loans to consumers buying the company's products".

Is captive finance company a common word?

captive finance company is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.