What's the meaning of long term loan and short term loan ?

If the loan amount needs to be paid back over a long period of time then it is LONG TERM LOAN & if the period is short than it is SHORT TERM LOAN. Long term loans are approximately20 to25 years and Short term loans can be even a minimum of30 days.

short term loan which is payable with in one year or finanical year. Long term loan which is payable with in three years or   more

Short term loans are generally up to about three years. A popular short term loan is a payday loan. Someone may take a payday loan out in the event of an emergency such as car repairs, taking a vacation, or other unexpected bills.

And Long term loans can be taken over an extended amount of time. Most common long term loans are mortgages, student loans, wedding loans, start-up business loans, and home improvement loans. A long term loan is credit based.

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Short-term loans are the activities undertaken by the institutions during the exploitation cycle. The advantage of these activities, it is constantly repeated during the production process (activity). Examples include, supply, storage, production, distribution ... and the harvest

Due to the repetitive nature and short timetable, they need a certain type of funding in line with this nature. This was among the factors that banks pushed the development of many ways and a variety of techniques to finance these activities, and thereby contributing to the diversification of these methods is the lack of stability, which regulates the activity, and the different nature of the funding problem, has imposed the need to adapt the banks of the means of intervention by the objectives of this intervention and nature

As for long-term loans are for capitalism and the multifaceted activities for more than a financial cycle uses these loans financed the purchase of machinery, equipment or finance projects need completed multiple years

usually short term loan means a loan to be paid within1 year, or lesser time. and long term loan is that one, which u can pay after1 year, or more, even it can be20 years, even more.

long term loan has long time to be paid back 

short term loan has short time to be paid back 

agree with mr inder

All prior answer logical. I would like to add.

The classification is the requirement for the balance sheet to categorise short term and long term liabilities. Which in turn give the basis for the calculation of working capital, Current Ratio Quick Ratio Debt Equity Ratio (as if the liability is classified as long term it will be part of debts)