ninja loan
ninja loan is the alternative letter-case form of NINJA loan.
Noun capitalized: NINJA loan
NINJA loan (plural NINJA loans)
- A subprime loan issued to borrowers with no job, income, or assets.
- On top of all this, banks are prying less into the private lives of their mortgage applicants. Traditionally, lenders wished to know something of the borrowers' background—their jobs, their wealth and soforth. In an age of perennially rising home prices, these tedious details could be dispensed...2007 February 1, Edward Chancellor, “Ponzi nation”, in Institutional Investor
- No competent banker would make a NINJA loan unless he was faced with a Governmental Carrot, a Governmental Stick, or a combination of both.2008, FL Turbo, “OT - Do you really think you can trust Bush?”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet)
Forms of ninja loan
| plural | ninja loans |
|---|---|
| plural | NINJA loans |
| alternative form | ninja loan |
Origin of ninja loan
Coined by the American lending company HCL Finance from an approximate initialism of no income, no job, no assets.
Questions about ninja loan
- What does ninja loan mean?
- Ninja loan means a subprime loan issued to borrowers with no job, income, or assets.
- What is ninja loan the alternative letter-case form of?
- Ninja loan is the alternative letter-case form of NINJA loan.
- What part of speech is ninja loan?
- Ninja loan is a noun.
- What is the plural of ninja loan?
- The plural of ninja loan is ninja loans.
Words near ninja loan in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ninja loan (page history and authors); NINJA loan (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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