Usually means: Loans to borrowers with poor credit.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. subprime: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. subprime: Merriam-Webster
  3. subprime: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. subprime: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Subprime, subprime: Wordnik
  6. subprime: Wiktionary
  7. subprime: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. subprime: Dictionary.com
  9. Subprime: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. subprime: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Subprime: Investopedia
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (subprime)

adjective:  Less than prime; inferior.
adjective:  (US, banking, now worldwide) Designating a loan (typically at a greater than usual rate of interest) offered to a borrower who is not qualified for other loans (for example, because of a poor credit history).
adjective:  (US, banking, dated) Designating a type of commercial lending rate, less than the prime rate, offered to desirable borrowers.
noun:  A subprime loan.

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