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microfinance

noun

Etymology

From micro- + finance. Coined by German sociologist and economist Hans Dieter Seibel in 1990.

  1. derived from fīnis
  2. derived from finance
  3. inherited from finaunce
  4. prefixed as microfinance — “micro + finance”

Definitions

  1. Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.

    • Microfinance, once a relative cottage industry championed by antipoverty activists and development wonks, is on the verge of a revolution, with billions of dollars from big banks, private-equity shops and pension funds pouring in.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for microfinance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA