Etymology

banjeonse

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Today it means: A form of lease in the South Korean real estate market which is a hybrid between jeonse and wolse, in which the lessee provides the landlord with a smaller lump sum deposit than would be required with jeonse, while agreeing to pay a lower rate of monthly rent than would be required with wolse. Full definition →

Korean 반전세(半傳貰)
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  1. Korean · borrowed from반전세(半傳貰)
  2. English todaybanjeonse

Borrowed from Korean 반전세(半傳貰) (banjeonse, literally “half-jeonse”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.