Definition of "loan-office" [loan-office]

• A public office at which loans are made or arranged. (noun)
• A pawnshop, or pawnbroker's establishment. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Blaze himself had been taken in for questioning about a loan-office holdup in Saugus, but he hadn't been in on that job and had come across so honestly bewildered that the cops let him go."
• "And Becky Connolly, the loan-office manager, was so worried she could barely sleep at night."
• "He had redeemed the things from the loan-office and pawned them with his private banker, as he called him, who gave more for them."