lending institution

1. 1.

   a financial institution that makes loans

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Questions about lending institution

What does lending institution mean?

lending institution means "a financial institution that makes loans".

Is lending institution a common word?

lending institution 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.