ninja loan
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of NINJA loan.
Example Sentences
- "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 with. "Low doc" and "no doc" loans have proliferated. One mortgage provider, HCL Finance, advertises itself as the "home of the 'no doc' loan." Among the products listed on its Web site is the NINJA loan: Even borrowers with "No Income, No Job and No Assets" are welcome to apply."
- "No competent banker would make a NINJA loan unless he was faced with a Governmental Carrot, a Governmental Stick, or a combination of both."
- "The NINA loan is the basis for the apocryphal “NINJA” loan that is often used as an example of excesses in the boom-era mortgage market. NINJA supposedly stood for “no-income, no job, no assets,” but no such loan ever existed. Also, the NINA code, which did exist, did not signify a loan to a borrower with no income. Rather, the code signified that the lender had no information about the borrower’s income."
Etymology
Coined by the American lending company HCL Finance from an approximate initialism of no income, no job, no assets.