bridge loan
noun
: a short-term loan used to finance an enterprise, investment, or government pending the receipt of other funds
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Where traditional lenders are pulling back due to balance sheet pressure and concerns about the health of the office market, special situations investors will fill the void with preferred equity, mezzanine debt, bridge loans, and rescue capital.
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Greg Friedman, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
In addition to bridging funding gaps, bridge loans can be used to frontload funding for nonprofit programs and infrastructure, such as launching new projects and scaling existing programs, that are essential to mission delivery.
—Andrea Levere, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The loan, which was proposed by Isleton’s city manager to help starve off a potential city bankruptcy or disincorporation, would have spanned across 10 years and gone toward a $500,000 bridge loan and other debts the city has to pay back.
—Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The same is true of bridge loans, construction loans and home equity loans.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 31 July 2025
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Greg Friedman, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
In addition to bridging funding gaps, bridge loans can be used to frontload funding for nonprofit programs and infrastructure, such as launching new projects and scaling existing programs, that are essential to mission delivery.
—Andrea Levere, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The loan, which was proposed by Isleton’s city manager to help starve off a potential city bankruptcy or disincorporation, would have spanned across 10 years and gone toward a $500,000 bridge loan and other debts the city has to pay back.
—Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The same is true of bridge loans, construction loans and home equity loans.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 31 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for bridge loan
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“Bridge loan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bridge%20loan. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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