WordNet
n. a loan that establishes consumer credit that is granted for personal use; usually unsecured and based on the borrower's integrity and ability to pay [syn: consumer loan]
Usage examples of "personal loan".
Give him fifteen credits and let him regard it as a personal loan from you.
For this new Tramp, I've got in some new money, as a personal loan.
However, Games Authority has no rule which forbids me from extending you a personal loan.
Jack McGovern happened to come through the lobby just as I walked in, and on the spur of the moment I borrowed twentyfive from him as a personal loan without giving him the check.
When some unemployed mother of three phoned her at one o'clock one night and asked her for a personal loan of a hundred dollars, Eleanor came to her senses and decided that this had to stop.
This left fifteen percent for the car payment, twenty-five percent for food, twenty percent for gas and car repairs, and forty percent for an enormous personal loan he incurred getting started lavishly in married life.