Loan
[ləʊn] or [lon]
Definition
(noun.) the temporary provision of money (usually at interest).
Typist: Nigel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A loanin.
(n.) The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
(n.) That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.
(n. t.) To lend; -- sometimes with out.
Typist: Terrence
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Lend.
Typist: Lottie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Advance, mortgage, hypothecation
ANT:Recall, resumption, foreclosure
Inputed by Chris
Definition
n. a lane: an open space for passage left between fields of corn: a place for milking cows.—Also Loan′ing.
n. anything lent: the act of lending: permission to use: money lent for interest.—v.t. to lend.—adj. Loan′able.—ns. Loan′-off′ice a public office at which loans are negotiated a pawnbroker's shop; Loan′-socī′ety a society organised to lend money to be repaid with interest by instalments; Loan′-word one taken into one language from another—like Loafer above.
Typist: Yvette
Examples
- You'd better have the loan of my razor this morning, Mr. Ayresleigh,' said the man who was stirring the fire, tipping the wink to his friend the boy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It could only have erected this bank into a sort of general loan office for the whole country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is on the strength of that loan I am enabled to continue the bold game which, a while since, I feared I should never play more. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You well know who came to my rescue, from what hand I received the loan which saved me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was of course impossible to accept a loan from Rosedale; but proximate possibilities hovered temptingly before her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He would loan them mess tins if they did not have them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If the ghost of his grandfather, Sir, was to rise before him this minute, he'd ask him for the loan of his acceptance on an eightpenny stamp. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- When Parliament refused supplies, he demanded loans from various subjects, and attempted similar illegal exactions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Am I worth those loans of money which you so delicately reminded me of a little while since? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The French people had subscribed enormously to Russian loans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of our most lucrative means of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security is unimpeachable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In this power consist both the value and the use of the loans. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- That condition was, that he should make a solemn resolution to grant no more loans of his name, or anything else, to Mr. Micawber. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He could get shelter, food, loans, and legal help. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One evening I was short of money and George loaned me a hundred lire. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The adjutant to whom I had loaned my horse was killed, and I was designated to act in his place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was a grain buyer and the agent for several insurance companies and he also loaned money at high rates of interest. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was loaned in 1904 to the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, and by it exhibited as part of the historical Edison collection at the St. Louis Exposition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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