Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lending rate
noun
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▪ Four big banks cut their prime lending rate by half a point to 9.5%.
▪ On Thursday Mr Lawson, his hand forced by the Bundesbank, raised the minimum lending rate from 14 to 15 percent.
▪ The basic bank lending rate was set at 36 percent per month.
Usage examples of "lending rate".
Tightfist had taught him much about money-the value of it, how to make it, hold on to it, about usury, greed and the normal Chinese lending rate, in good times, of 2 percent a month.
And when Chase Manhattan raised its prime lending rate to twenty-one percent on the last day of the month, there was strong pressure for a statement from the President.