Lending
['lɛndɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned.
Checked by Claudia--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lend
(n.) The act of one who lends.
(n.) That which is lent or furnished.
Editor: Moll
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are lending money, foretells difficulties in meeting payments of debts and unpleasant influence in private. To lend other articles, denotes impoverishment through generosity. To refuse to lend things, you will be awake to your interests and keep the respect of friends. For others to offer to lend you articles, or money, denotes prosperity and close friendships.
Edited by Dwight
Examples
- Were it not, mere charity or friendship could be the only motives for lending. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The sovereign, like, any other owner of stock, may derive a revenue from it, either by employing it himself, or by lending it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The disgrace of lending herself to a vile deception is the only disgrace with which I can conscientiously charge Mrs. Rubelle. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was a method for systematizing and lending rational sanction to material accepted on authority. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The big-headed babies were equally obliging in lending their grotesque aid to the general effect. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This policy of lending money to foreign states is, so far as I know peculiar to the canton of Berne. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We had no story-telling that evening, and Traddles insisted on lending me his pillow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I'd like to, he's so kind to me about bringing my letters and lending books. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The settled Chinese population went on sowing and reaping and trading during this change of masters without lending its weight to either side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The merchant or monied man makes money by lending money to government, and instead of diminishing, increases his trading capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And I should never have expected you to be lending your sanction to such vanity-baits for poor young ladies. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There, then--'Off, ye lendings! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Checker: Newman