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CAPTIVE FINANCE COMPANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does captive finance company mean? 

CAPTIVE FINANCE COMPANY (noun)
  The noun CAPTIVE FINANCE COMPANY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CAPTIVE FINANCE COMPANY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CAPTIVE FINANCE COMPANY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("captive finance company" is a kind of...):

finance company (a financial institution (often affiliated with a holding company or manufacturer) that makes loans to individuals or businesses)


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