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loanback

loanback noun: a loan made from a pension or annuity to someone who has contributed money to that pension or annuity.

Noun

loanback (countable and uncountable, plural loanbacks)

  1. A loan made from a pension or annuity to someone who has contributed money to that pension or annuity.
    • For example, a unit-linked office may require the borrower to have part at least of his personal pension premiums invested in units in a special fund from which the office makes loans to loanback borrowers.1982, Norman Toulson, Modern Pensions, page 134
    • Furthermore, the Target plans provide a guaranteed loanback facility with loans from as little as £5,001.1987, Accountancy - Volume 99, page 13
  2. A loan from a trust fund to the grantor that created the fund.
    • A prearranged loanback of the entire gift property itself (rather than just the income therefrom) may well be disregarded as being merely a grantor retained control over the property, thereby causing the entire amount of the "loan" to be included in the grantor's estate.1983, Malcolm A. Moore, Use of Trusts in Estate Planning, page 434
    • The following, in combination, may avert an implication of prior agreement: (a). Use of an independent trustee; (b). Reasonable time between creation of trust and loanback.1984, Resource Materials: Estate Planning in Depth - Volume 2, page 583

Examples of loanback in a sentence

  • Most of the plans have loanback facilities, which allow you to use your pension to get a loan.2014, Sara Williams, The Financial Times Guide to Business Start Up 2015, →ISBN:
  • A more modest approach is for the parent to give money to a child, followed by a loanback to the parent.1990, Richard A. Westin, Federal Tax Planning, page 23:

Forms of loanback

pluralloanbacks

Origin of loanback

From loan + back.

Questions about loanback

What does loanback mean?
Loanback means a loan made from a pension or annuity to someone who has contributed money to that pension or annuity.
How do you use loanback in a sentence?
Most of the plans have loanback facilities, which allow you to use your pension to get a loan.
What part of speech is loanback?
Loanback is a noun.
What is the plural of loanback?
The plural of loanback is loanbacks.

Words near loanback in the dictionary

  1. loan-blend
  2. loan-blends
  3. loanability
  4. loanable
  5. loanable funds
  6. loanback
  7. loanbacks
  8. loanblend
  9. loanblends
  10. Loanda
  11. loaned

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