--- title: Glossary of Commercial Loan Terms in Plain English! description: Glossary of commercial loan terms explained in everyday English. Explains commercial loans using lots of real life examples. image: https://info.c-loans.com/hubfs/Coffee_cup.jpg --- [![c-loans-logo-2025](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/images/c-loans-logo-2025.png?width=183&height=86&name=c-loans-logo-2025.png)](https://c-loans.com) [Terms of Use](https://www.c-loans.com/terms-of-use) | [Disclaimer](https://www.c-loans.com/disclaimer) | [Blog](https://info.c-loans.com/) # Commercial Loans and Fun Blog ## [Glossary of Commercial Loan Terms in Plain English!](https://info.c-loans.com/glossary-of-commercial-loan-terms-in-plain-english) Posted by [George Blackburne](https://info.c-loans.com/author/george-blackburne) on Wed, Jul 6, 2016 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Lots of companies have created glossaries of commercial loan terminology where they define fancy terms like debt yield ratios, defeasance, lockout clauses, and standby takeout commitments.  Our new glossary strives to be different. Our new commercial loan terms glossary strives to explain these sophisticated topics using easy-to-understand, everyday English and lots of real-life examples.  I have always been a little slow-witted myself, and examples help me a ton.  "Suppose you're the Chief Investment Officer with a life company, and you need to know *exactly* what yield you will earn on your mortgage investments..."   [![Free List of 3,159 Commercial Lenders Sort By Your Own Criteria](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/edc33fe8-9d87-477b-bf2f-07a33d3d2d24.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/edc33fe8-9d87-477b-bf2f-07a33d3d2d24)   Here is our new glossary:  [http://www.c-loans.com/knowledge-base/commercial-loan-terms-glossary](http://www.c-loans.com/knowledge-base/commercial-loan-terms-glossary)  You should **bookmark it right now** because it will get larger and more complete every week.   ![Helen_Keller.png](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Helen_Keller.png?width=320&name=Helen_Keller.png)   This new glossary is part of the new Knowledge Base section (you'll find it under the Knowledge Base tab) in C-Loans.  My goal is to eventually have this glossary and this Knowledge Base compendium in [C-Loans.com](http://www.c-loans.com) so complete that a starving newbie, someone too poor to even buy my [basic training course](http://www.c-loans.com/mortgage-brokers/learn-to-broker-commercial-loans), can learn the entire business of ***commercial real estate finance*** ("CREF") just by studying it.  I am pretty much there already. 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