make advances to
Example Sentences
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Companies like Litton, which collect mortgage payments from borrowers and foreclose on properties, make advances to mortgage owners when a loan goes sour to cover things like principal and interest payments.
From Reuters • Jun. 6, 2011
It should be in a position to facilitate exports, make advances to agricultural credit agencies, to establish industries, railways and financial institutions which cannot otherwise secure credit.
From Time Magazine Archive
De Gaulle should not expect me to make advances to him.
From Time Magazine Archive
For this reason, when visitors tried to make advances to John he was sullen, and they, feeling that for some reason he disliked them, retaliated by deciding that he was a “funny” child.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
My father's indolence renders their society an irksome exertion to him, and my mother's pride always induces her to hang back rather than to make advances to anybody.
From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny
