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microfinances

microfinances is the plural of microfinance.

Meaning of microfinance

Noun

microfinance (usually uncountable, plural microfinances)

  1. (usually) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
    • Microfinance, once a relative cottage industry championed by antipoverty activists and development wonks, is on the verge of a revolution, with billions of dollars from big banks, private-equity shops and pension funds pouring in.2008 June 5, Barbara Kiviat, “The Big Trouble In Small Loans”, in Time, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2011

Questions about microfinances

What is microfinances the plural of?
Microfinances is the plural of microfinance.

Words near microfinances in the dictionary

  1. microfiltrated
  2. microfiltrates
  3. microfiltration
  4. microfiltrations
  5. microfinance
  6. microfinances
  7. microfinancial
  8. microfinancier
  9. microfinanciers
  10. microfinancing
  11. microfine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: microfinances (page history and authors); microfinance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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