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Loan

noun

The temporary provision of money (usually at interest).

A word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English. Synonym: loanword.

verb

(past & past part. loaned; pres. part. loaning)

Give temporarily; let have for a limited time. Synonym: lend. "Loan me some money"

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"Loan" Quotes from Famous Books

... neighbour who happened to bear his sad plaint Addressed in the following manner the saint: "The nation will keep thee to support splendour's throne, And interest will pay thee, because thou'rt alone."—(a loan.) ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 10, No. 271, Saturday, September 1, 1827. • Various

... which specially predisposed Raleigh to literary composition. He borrowed books, mainly of an historical character, in all directions. A letter to Sir Robert Cotton is extant in which he desires the loan of no less than thirteen obscure and bulky historians, and we may imagine his silent evenings spent in poring over the precious manuscripts of the Annals of Tewkesbury and the Chronicle of Evesham. In this year young ...

— Raleigh • Edmund Gosse

... interference of the Dutch deputies. He demanded permission to leave the army. Permission was readily granted; and he set out for Italy. That there might be some pretext for his departure, he was commissioned by the Archduke to raise a loan in Genoa, on the credit of ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... the market. Land stays put. Well, after my first glimpse of the cold shoulder I ciphered round a spell. I'm a great hand to cipher round. Some one is out to down me; some one is givin' out orders. Who? Mayer Zurich, I judged. He sold me a shoddy coat once. And he wept because he couldn't loan me the money I wanted, himself. He's one of these liers-in-wait ...

— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

... might ask the loan of a pair of your breeches till to-morrow. They seem to me a bit fuller in the seat than mine, and let alone being handy to carry the china in, they'll be a kind of disguise. For, to tell the truth, I don't want to be seen in Polperro streets to be mixed up with this ...

— The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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