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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 products
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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