单词 | lend-lease |
释义 | lend-leasen. = lease-lend n. Also attributive and in extended uses. Also as v. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [noun] > supply from U.S. lease-lend1941 lend-lease1941 society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > [noun] > taking on rent or lease > lease > types of land lease year-tack1532 rental1541 running1696 improving leasea1723 improvement lease1825 pastoral lease1850 lend-lease1941 lease-back1947 1941 Economist 15 Feb. 214/1 Future disposition of the armaments now being produced is before Congress in the ‘Lend-Lease’ Bill. 1942 Times (Weekly ed.) 9 Sept. 9/2 Thousands of barrage balloons were lend-leased to the United States soon after Pearl Harbour. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. (recto rear cover) The contribution of experienced pilots and planes in the fight to clear our side of the Atlantic is an element of the Lend-Lease programme in reverse. 1945 W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 178 Your friendship and great help as Lend-Lease Administrator and Secretary of State will always be remembered with gratitude. 1949 I. Deutscher Stalin 512 More than 400,000 lorries were supplied to Russia under Lend-Lease. 1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing i. 18 Your hand, my child, is on lend-lease to a vicious old man. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Oct. 625/1 Great Britain has undertaken to lend-lease to the United States nothing less than the Victorian Age in its entirety. 1962 Listener 15 Feb. 307/3 The abrupt ending of Lend-Lease. 1972 National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 3/1 Talks in the State Department are aimed at ending a U.S.-Soviet dispute over lend-lease that goes back to World War II. From 1942 to 1945, the United States supplied Russia with some $10.8 billion in military and civilian equipment under the lend-lease program. Derivatives lend-leased adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective] > supplied from U.S. lend-leased1942 society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > [adjective] > leased in specific way lend-leased1942 wet-leased1978 1942 Times (Weekly ed.) 9 Sept. 9/2 Lend-leased British anti-aircraft guns help to defend American cities. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1941 |
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