loann.1
/ləʊn/, U.S. /loʊn/ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift made by superior
loana1240
warison1338
gratuity1540
vail1622
a1240 Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 257 Wiit..þonkeð god ȝeorne..of se riche lane [MS. T. leane]..þat he haueð ileanet him.
a1250 Prov. Ælfred 186 in Old Eng. Misc. 114 Ayhte nys non ildre istreon; ac hit is godes lone.
a1375 Lay Folks Mass Bk. App. iv. 640 Vr lord lene vs þat lon.
c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 153 God be thanked of his loone.
a1400 Evang. Nicod. 1530 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 53 419 Þus all þa saintes þanked him ryght Þat slyke lane wald þam len.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10179 In thrin his godes did he dele, þat godd had lent him of his lane.
c1440 Bone Flor. 1916 The lady..Dwellyd as nonne..Loveing god of hys loone.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xix. 226 Thou leyne vs lyffyng on thi lone.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Wolf & Lamb l. 2743 in Poems (1981) 101 Lordis that hes land be Goddis lane [rhymes tane, gane].
2.
a. A thing lent; something the use of which is allowed for a time, on the understanding that it shall be returned or an equivalent given; esp. a sum of money lent on these conditions, and usually at interest. †to loan: as a loan.
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the mind > possession > giving > lending > by way of loan [phrase]
on, to borrowa900
to loana1400
the mind > possession > giving > lending > [noun] > that which is lent
loana1400
lending1602
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan
loana1400
prest?c1430
apprest1443
press money1561
accommodation1595
imprest1680
bank loan1721
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan > money out on loan
loana1400
out-money1608
loan-money1727
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14036 Tua men..asked him penis to lan.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Exod. xxii. 25 If thou ȝyuest money to loone to my pore puple.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 16 Ȝeve ȝe loone, hoping no thing ther of.
1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 387 Euery man that payeth to such a yefte or lone aboue specificied.
c1480 (a1400) St. Nicholas 810 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 504 Þe Iow..gert cal hyme in Iugment, to prowe his lane þat he lent.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xxi. sig. y.vi v He the whiche receyueth that londe of money.
1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 17 Our saluior sais in the vi chaiptur of S. Luc. len ȝour layne traistand no thing thairfor.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. ii. 20 The Lord giue thee seed of this woman, for the loane which is lent to the Lord. View more context for this quotation
1740 W. Douglass Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 11 Their Money being Loans of Paper Credit called Bills, from their Government to private Persons upon Land Security.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. x. 409 Dhar ceded to the British government..as security for a pecuniary loan, the province of Bairsia for five years.
1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. i. iv. 42 Indian railways have been constructed by loans subscribed almost entirely in England.
b. figurative. Said of something (as a word, a custom) ‘borrowed’ or adopted by one people from another.
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the mind > possession > taking > borrowing > [noun] > instance of
mutuation1604
borrowa1616
loan1891
1891 T. K. Cheyne Origin & Relig. Contents Psalter viii. 405 To regard the conceptions of Isa. lxv. 17, and still more, of Isa. lxvi. 15 as mere loans from Mazdeism is uncritical.
1892 E. P. Barrow Regni Evangelium iv. 78 Inward graces and outward opportunities are loans which may be enlarged by use and must be accounted for.
3. figurative and in extended use (rare).1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Animam debet..he hath not his lyfe but in lone.1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica v. xlix. 118 The blow was put to loane.1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxx. 297 She gratified Clive by a momentary loan of two knuckly old fingers.† b. occasionally The action of hiring or letting.
a. The action of lending; an instance of this; also in †at, †by, †in, on or upon loan; and †to put to loan, in quot. figurative.
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the mind > possession > giving > lending > [noun]
loanc1290
lendinga1340
lentc1503
commodation1578
commodating1604
loaning1740
the mind > possession > giving > lending > [noun] > (a) loan
loanc1290
commodatum1572
lendc1575
mutuation1604
commodate1728
service1810
accommodation1823
rub1902
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 244/136 ‘Leneth me’, he sede, ‘Ane hondret quarters of þat corn..þis schipmen seiden ne dorre we make no lone’.
c1386 G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale 295 No wight in al this world wiste of this loone.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. v. 194 Lumbardes of lukes þat lyuen by lone as Iewes.
1454 Rolls of Parl. V. 245 2 Ther shal be severally leveide and had by wey of lonne and preste to hym.
1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 220 Item, delyveryd to the sayd Straton, by lone, xijd.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxxviiv Any bargeyn or lowne of money by way of vsury.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxliiii Money..prested out in lone.
1646 in Rec. Mass. Bay 4 Nov. (1853) II. 164 The Corte..formerly granted Maior Nehemia Bourne the loane of sixe great guns.
1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 319 I am promis'd the loan of it [a book].
1721 Rec. Colony Rhode Island (1859) IV. 297 To permit and suffer the said Richard Ward to have and take upon loan as much of said bills..as by them shall be thought needful.
1729 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1870) IV. 553 The vote of the House..for re-emitting some bills at loan.
1753 G. Washington Jrnl. (1754) 6 The Waters were quite impassable, without swimming our Horses; which obliged us to get the Loan of a Canoe.
1813 J. Adams Wks. (1856) X. 36 I am much obliged to you..for the loan of this precious collection of memorials.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 972 If the loan is not upon the vessel, but upon the goods and merchandize.
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 605 He incessantly pressed for a ‘brave sum of money’ on loan.
1858 W. H. Sumner in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. XII. 226 I obtained the loan of that Order Book.
1900 M. C. Wilson Irene Petrie Pref. 12 I am indebted..to many friends for loan of letters, etc.
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society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [noun]
hiringc1400
letting1425
lettage1530
fee-farming1549
renting1552
location1581
loan1601
rental1800
let1839
letment-
1601 Exp. Judges riding West. & Oxford Circuit 49 in Camden Misc. (1859) IV It. the loane of vessells vs. iiijd.
1790 Weston Rec. (Massach.) 5 Apr. (1893) 414 The proceeds of the Sale or Loan of the Same [pews] to Discharge the Debts of the Town.
4. National finance.
a. A contribution of money, formerly often a forced one, from private individuals or public bodies, towards the expenses of the state, the amount of which is acknowledged by the government as a debt; sometimes, the sum of money so contributed.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > subsidy > [noun]
witereden688
commorth1402
aid1419
subsidy1422
subside?a1425
prest?c1430
loan1439
subventiona1475
benevolence1483
loan-money1523
gratitude1535
press money1561
subsidy money1577
malevolence1592
succour1605
oblation1613
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan > forced
prest?c1430
loan1439
press money1561
Morton's Fork1847
1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 8/2 Ye gret loones and presttes, ye which yei have afore this tyme made unto our said Soverain Lord.
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 8 At the tyme of the same lone or taking of the seid money.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 2 §1 Euery high collectour of any .xv. subsidie or other taxe or lone.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ciiv At the last loane some lent the fifth part.
1603 North's Plutarch, Seneca (1612) 1217 He..ransacked all Italie with impositions and excessiue lones.
1626 J. Mead Let. 8 July in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 126 The money which the aldermen gave the king, they neither presented in the name of a loan nor of their own proper gift.
1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. lxviii. 330 Several persons..refused to contribute to a loan exacted by Charles the first.
1833 H. Martineau French Wines & Politics vi. 82 Loans of almost every kind, and under every species of pretence had been raised upon the suffering nation.
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 143 They..obstinately refused to grant a loan which they were called upon to advance, and which was to be repaid out of the proceeds of the tax for the Turkish war.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 162 Since Juarez triumphed, there have been no forced loans, no exactions.
b. An arrangement or contract by which a government receives upon its own credit advances of money on specified conditions, esp. the payment of a stipulated interest.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan > national or international
loan1765
soft loan1954
line of credit1958
Euroloan1961
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. viii. 324 The frequent opportunities of conferring particular obligations, by preference in loans [etc.].
1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. v. ii. 533 To reduce the charge on account of the loan to 3 or 3½ per cent.
1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. ii. 109 It had been thought necessary to offer..ten per cent. per annum, on a loan.
1853 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 127 1187 The Company [has] contracted loans to the extent of 16,000,000l.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations.
a. Simple attributive.
loan-account n.
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1899 Westm. Gaz. 22 Aug. 6/3 The customer..is informed that a loan-account..has been opened in his name.
loan-act n.
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1743 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1871) V. 668 The Loan Act for emitting £25,000 which his Majesty has condescended to approve.
loan-chest n.
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1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. III. 473 There were special loan-chests, the borrower deposited some object of value as a pledge in the chest out of which his loan had been taken.
loan-fund n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan > loan-fund
bank1572
loan-fund1835
1835 Act 5 & 6 William IV c. 23 §1 Certain Institutions for establishing Loan funds have been..established..for the Benefit..of the Labouring Classes.
1893 Duke of Argyll Unseen Found. Society xvi. 521 A loan-fund had been opened.
loan-market n.
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1844 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 41 593 The already existing pressure upon the loan market.
1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 11 Its loan market holds the keys of trade.
loan-shop n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan-shop
mountain of piety1617
loan-house1622
Mount of Pietya1630
Monte di Pietà1654
loan-bank1662
loan-office1720
Mount of Pity1792
lending-house1797
Mont de Piété1840
loan-shop1849
1849 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 1 5 The Lombard merchants..were the first to open loan-shops in England.
b. Objective.
loan-contractor n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > arranging of loans > one who arranges loans
banker?1526
procurator1677
loan-jobber1797
loan-contractor1834
loan-monger1837
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 390/1 The vitals are eaten out of Old England by subsidies, loan-contractors, and Jew-jobbers.
loan-jobber n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > arranging of loans > one who arranges loans
banker?1526
procurator1677
loan-jobber1797
loan-contractor1834
loan-monger1837
1797 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1799) I. 84 Loan-jobbers and Contractors are quarrelling who shall rob us.
1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 5 Oct. 45 Loan-jobbers, stock-jobbers, Jews.
loan-jobbing adj.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > arranging of loans
procuration1673
loan-mongery1822
loan-mongering1826
loan-jobbing1831
1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle i. 10 A junior partner in the eminent loan-jobbing firm of Catchflat and Company.
C2. Also loan-money n., loan-office n.† loan-bank n. Obsolete an establishment from which poor people could borrow money at a low rate.† loan-bill n. Obsolete = exchequer-bill n. at exchequer n. Compounds 2.† loan-house n. Obsolete = loan-office n. 1.† loan-recusant n. Obsolete one who refused to contribute to a loan.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan-shop
mountain of piety1617
loan-house1622
Mount of Pietya1630
Monte di Pietà1654
loan-bank1662
loan-office1720
Mount of Pity1792
lending-house1797
Mont de Piété1840
loan-shop1849
1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 11 If publick loan-banks, lombards, or banks of credit..were erected.
1746 in Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1876) IX. 250 A certificate..for letting out the loan bank made by this Colony.
1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 63 Loan banks lent money.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills
warrant1433
assignmentc1460
policy1623
navy bill1679
redraft1682
tally of pro1691
bank bill1694
bank seal bill1696
chequer-bill1697
assignation1704
chequer-note1705
mint bill1707
transport debenture1707
transport-bill1710
loan-bill1722
treasury note1756
tin bill1778
treasury-bill1798
rescription1800
short bill1808
treasury-warrant1834
sight bill1853
short-paper1912
treasuries1922
T.B.1936
T.D.R.1948
T-Bill1982
1722 London Gaz. No. 6078/2 The Exchequer Bills, called Loan Bills.
loan-blend n. a compound word consisting of both native and foreign elements; a hybrid (see hybrid n. 2).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > formation from foreign word(s) > word thus formed
loan-blend1950
1950 Language 26 215 Loanblends show morphemic substitution as well as importation.
1974 R. A. Hall External Hist. Romance Lang. 9 On occasion, a newly formed word may consist, in part, of a native term..and, in part, of a borrowing. The result is a loan-blend, as in Fr[ench] bar-serveuse ‘bar-maid’, with the first part of the loan-compound kept and with the second part replaced by Fr. serveuse ‘maid, waitress’.
loan capital n. the part of the capital of a company or the like that is borrowed for a specified period.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > provision of capital > capital or principal > types of
stock1598
artificial capital1772
circulating capital1776
natural capital1785
money capital1791
working capital1798
reserve1819
authorized capital1825
current asset1826
loan capital1848
capital asset1851
water1867
capital equipment1893
refugee capital1926
risk capital1927
hot money1936
venture capital1943
risk money1944
exposure1975
1848 Bradshaw's Railway Almanack (ed. 2) 57 The guarantee is extended to the payment of interest on £1,000,000 (the authorized Loan Capital) at whatever rate it may be borrowed.
1964 Financial Times 31 Jan. 19/5 No share or loan capital of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has within two years preceding the date hereof been issued or is proposed to be issued for cash or otherwise.
loan-certificate n.
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1777 Boston Town Meeting 26 May 285 If this could be accomplished, and the Money redeemed by Loan-Certificates, it would operate doubly in favor of the States.
loan-collection n. a collection of works of art, curiosities, or the like, lent by their owners for exhibition.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > [noun] > collection > specific
loan-collection1895
1895 H. F. Brown Biogr. J. A. Symonds I. 100 Symonds saw the first loan collection of old masters [at Manchester].
loan-farm n. South African land loaned to a farmer by the government.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > rented or loaned farm
mailingc1442
loan-farm1804
loan-place1844
mass1854
tenant-farm1949
1804 J. Barrow Acc. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–98 II. 380 The number of these loan farms registered in the office of the receiver of the land revenue, on closing the books in 1798, were..1832.
1955 J. H. Wellington S. Afr. II. iii. xiv. 208 To create a stable border farming population in the place of the cattle farmers trekking from loan farm to loan farm, land was offered to settlers on a quit-rent basis.
1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo ii. 21 Probably in the 1770's the land was issued as a loan place and became the temporary property of one farmer. Loan farms were apportioned in the simplest possible way and were held at a nominal rent.
loan-form n. a form adopted by one language from another.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [noun] > word or phrase borrowed from other language
foreignism1779
loanword1874
lending1884
loan-form1902
1902 Amer. Anthropologist 4 31 Penobscot nachigadonkak is a Passamaquoddy loan-form.
loan-god n. a god borrowed from another religion.
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1901 A. Lang Magic & Relig. ii. 15 The Theory of Loan-Gods; or borrowed Religion.
loan-holder n. one who holds debentures or other acknowledgements of a loan; a mortgagee.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > one who holds acknowledgements of loan
loan-holder1823
1823 Ld. Byron Let. 10 Oct. (1981) XI. 73 It will be requisite for the Loan holders to set apart at least £50-000 Sterling—for that particular purpose.
1883 Manch. Examiner 6 Nov. 5/1 The shareholders and loanholders would have confidence.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan-shop
mountain of piety1617
loan-house1622
Mount of Pietya1630
Monte di Pietà1654
loan-bank1662
loan-office1720
Mount of Pity1792
lending-house1797
Mont de Piété1840
loan-shop1849
1622 T. Scott Belgicke Pismire 79 Their Lumbards, or Loane~houses, are principally for the benefit of the poore.
loan-monger n. a contemptuous name for a loan-contractor.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > arranging of loans > one who arranges loans
banker?1526
procurator1677
loan-jobber1797
loan-contractor1834
loan-monger1837
1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 28 He..turned up his nose at the Walpolian loanmongers.
1898 Spectator 8 Jan. 39 The plunder of conquered States for the benefit of the victor through the agency of the loan-monger.
loan-mongering n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > arranging of loans
procuration1673
loan-mongery1822
loan-mongering1826
loan-jobbing1831
1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 4 Nov. 347 Till excises and loanmongering began, these vermin [sc. the Quakers] were never heard of in England.
loan-mongery n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > arranging of loans
procuration1673
loan-mongery1822
loan-mongering1826
loan-jobbing1831
1822 Examiner 419/2 This must be the case..even if loan-mongery goes on.
loan-myth n. a myth borrowed from a foreign mythology.
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1887 A. Lang Myth, Ritual & Relig. I. 322 Many Greek myths are ‘loan~myths’.
loan-note n. an acknowledgement of indebtedness signed by an officer of a borrowing society on its behalf.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > acknowledgement of indebtedness
bill of debt1530
ticket1632
I O U1795
three vowels1822
loan-note1883
1883 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 11 564 The loan-notes of the Cherry Tree Building Society.
loan-place n. South African = loan-farm n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > rented or loaned farm
mailingc1442
loan-farm1804
loan-place1844
mass1854
tenant-farm1949
1844 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Mauritius & S. Afr. 585 A loan place which is a place obtained from the Government, that has not yet been surveyed, is half-an-hour's walk in every direction from the house or centre.
1939 J. S. Marais Cape Coloured People iv. 140 During the previous twenty years land had been granted to farmers as ‘loan places’.
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1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 75 The Loan-Recusants appeared the only men in the peoples affections.
loan-shark n. originally U.S. (see quot. 1928 and shark n.1 2).
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest > at excessive rates
money shark1844
Shylock1894
loan-shark1905
shylocker1973
1905 B. L. Taylor & W. C. Gibson Log of Water Wagon 41 Loan sharks have been following the Lithia all day.
1911 Collier's 4 Feb. 8/1 Mr. Ham became interested in the ‘World's’ lucrative and lengthy list of loan-shark advertisements.
1913 Munsey's Mag. Nov. 218/1 In New York the loan-sharks were doing a business of twenty million dollars per annum.
1913 Munsey's Mag. Nov. 221/1 At the convention of the Legal Aid Society in Pittsburgh..the loan-shark evil was discussed.
1928 Daily Tel. 5 May 9/5 It is hoped by this plan virtually to put out of business the ‘loan shark’, who exacts usurious rates of interest from the person of small means.
1972 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 27 Aug. 22/1 He was a loan-shark extortionist, and he had a very cute way of making sure customers paid up.
loan-sharking n. lending money at exorbitant rates of interest.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > moneylending at interest > exorbitant
shylocking1951
loan-sharking1970
1970 New Yorker 15 Aug. 24/1 Other illicit activities engaged in by Cosa Nostra..included..hijacking, loan-sharking.
1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 10 Sept. 25/5 We are all aware that narcotics, prostitution, gambling and loansharking make up the bankroll of organized and syndicated crime.
loan-shift n. a change in the meaning of a word resulting from the influence of a foreign language; a word so affected.
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the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > types of semantic change > [noun]
usurpation1644
amelioration1871
pejoration1889
adequation1931
permutation1931
melioration1939
loan-shift1950
signal reaction1976
the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > types of semantic change > [noun] > word which has undergone
pejorative1882
meliorative1933
loan-shift1950
1950 Language 26 220 Loanshifts in general occur most readily when there is both phonetic and semantic resemblance between foreign and native terms.
1964 Language 40 95 The problems of translators and their role in introducing neologisms and loanshifts.
1974 R. A. Hall External Hist. Romance Lang. 9 French réaliser ‘to bring into existence’ has..undergone a shift of meaning to ‘become aware’, under the influence of Eng[lish] realise. Such a process of reinterpretation is known as a loan-shift, and its result as a calque.
loan-society n. an association of persons who pay a periodical subscription in order to form a fund from which loans may be made to members or others.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > a (type of) loan-society
loan-society1835
credit union1843
credit agency1861
Fannie Mae1948
Ginnie Mae1968
Sallie Mae1970
Freddie Mac1971
1835 Act 5 & 6 William IV c. 23 An Act for the Establishment of Loan Societies in England and Wales.
loan-translation n. [= German lehnübersetzung] an expression adopted by one language from another in more or less literally translated form; a calque n.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [noun] > word or phrase borrowed from other language > naturalized > not
alien1884
translation loan?1922
loan-translation1933
calque1937
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xxv. 456 The Slavic languages translate the term [sc. conscientia] by ‘with’ and ‘knowledge’, as in Russian [ˈso-vest] ‘conscience’. This process, called loan-translation, involves a semantic change: the native terms or the components which are united to create native terms, evidently undergo an extension of meaning.
1958 C. Rabin in Aspects of Translation 140 Loan-translation (calque)..is very common [in modern Hebrew]. We find, for example, gan yeladim ‘garden of children’, which (except for the difference in the..order of elements) reproduces G. Kindergarten even to the pl. of Kinder.
1964 C. Barber Ling. Change Present-day Eng. iv. 101 Another type of loan from a foreign language is the calque or loan-translation.
1965 Ulster Dialect Archive Bull. (Ulster Folk Museum) iv. 11 Fairy lore appears in fergorta..occurring also as a loan-translation hungry-grass.
1974 Verbatim Dec. 2/1 Hebrew..has a little series, mostly loan translations,..on a semantically similar pattern.
loanword n. [= German lehnwort] a word adopted or borrowed from another language.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [noun] > word or phrase borrowed from other language
foreignism1779
loanword1874
lending1884
loan-form1902
1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. v. 171 Loan-words are common to all dialects.
1900 Margoliouth in Expositor Apr. 248 Isaiah's oracles were full of Aramaic loan-words.
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loann.2
/ləʊn/, U.S. /loʊn/, Scottish English /lon/ Now only Scottish and dialect.
1. A lane, a by-road.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > lane > [noun]
lane971
twitchenOE
twitchelc1196
loaning1324
loan1362
stowc1440
strait1622
laning1638
slip1739
drong1787
loke1787
twittena1798
boreen1841
hutung1922
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. ii. 192 Lyȝere..Lurkede þorw lones [B., C. lanes].
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 162 Clarisse of Cokkes lone [B., C. lane].
1785 Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. 33 Why fear'd he to gang up the lone, and trembled at their swords?
1809 T. Donaldson Poems 94 An' down the loan he took his flight.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Lone, loan, a lane, a narrow passage.
1894 S. R. Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet 36 Maybes he's comin' up the loan this verra meenit.
2. An open uncultivated piece of ground near a farmhouse or village, on which the cows are milked.
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1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 20 Milk heat frae the Loan.
1721 A. Ramsay Robert Richy & Sandy 72 Nuckle kye stand rowting in the loans.
1881 W. T. Ross Poems 208 From the woods and loans An answering storm was hurled.
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† loann.3
Scottish. Obsolete.
Provisions. Also attributive, loan-money n., loan-silver n. board wages.
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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > supplies
warnestorea1300
astorec1330
chevisancec1385
weala1400
supply1510
supply1512
furniture1549
furnishments1559
loana1578
suppeditaments1599
foisona1616
store1636
wanigan1889
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 289 That thay sould be in reddynes agane the xxj day of Julij instant with fourtie dayes lone.
1639 Mrs. Huntley Let. in J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 145 That all his Majesteis leges..be in reddiness prepairit with all diligens to repair whair and when he think fitting, vpone 48 houris aduertesement, with 15 dayis lone.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 320 Ilk soldiour to haue sex schillinges ilk day, during the space of 40 dayes, of loan siluer..togidder also with thair hyre or levie or loan money.
a1670 J. Spalding Mem. Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 316 Ilk heretour to furnesh his prest man with 40 dayis loan.
a1836 W. Robertson in W. Walker Bards of Bon-accord (1887) 606 Aft there's ease in dolefu' croon, Tho' little loan lie in the wallet.
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loanv.
/ləʊn/, U.S. /loʊn/ Now chiefly U.S.absolute or intransitive.a1325 Prose Psalter xxxvi[i]. 27 The ryȝtful ys merciful..and laneþ [MS. Dubl. leneþ].1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1901 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 262 The limit..within which the executive officers..may loan to a director.
transitive. To grant the loan of; to lend. Also with out. Also figurative.
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the mind > possession > giving > lending > lend [verb (intransitive)]
lendc1000
loanc1200
lenda1240
to do, give, lend borrowingc1380
the mind > possession > giving > lending > lend [verb (transitive)]
lendc1000
loanc1200
to lend out (or forth)1549
commodate?1679
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > lend (money) [verb (transitive)] > lend at interest
lenda900
ockera1382
to set out1533
to lend out (or forth)1549
bank1567
to put forth1572
leta1605
to let outa1616
usure1620
fenerate1623
loan1740
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > lend (money) [verb (transitive)] > lend (a person) money
lendc1440
imprest1612
loan1785
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > lend money [verb (intransitive)]
loan1901
c1200 Vices & Virtues (1888) 77 Gif ðu him lanst ani þing of ðinen.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3114 Ich eow wullen lanen [c1300 Otho leone][etc.].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1838 Ich þe wulle lanen [c1300 Otho lene] of mine leode-folc fif hundred schipes.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 2 §1 Lonyng or leying out the same for gaines in purchasing landes.
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 203 In yeares of dearth and Scarcity, [he] loaned to many of them..wheat and other corne out of his grayneries.
1644 J. Langley Gemitus Columbæ 20 By way of location, or loaning them out.
1729 B. Fessenden in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1859) XIII. 32 Gershom Tobey loans Oxen.
1740 in Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1874) VIII. 320 The remainder of the said thirty thousand pounds..shall be loaned out to particular persons.
1785 Weston Rec. (Massach.) 19 Sept. (1893) 370 Said sum being Loned to the Treasurer by the Direction of the Town.
1803 ‘C. Caustic’ Terrible Tractoration (ed. 2) i. 3 They will not loan me, gratis, Their jingling sing-song apparatus.
1834 J. C. Calhoun Wks. II. 328 The power to withdraw the money from the deposit, and loan it to favorite State banks.
1847 O. A. Brownson Wks. V. 541 We once loaned a Protestant lady a pamphlet by an eminent Catholic divine.
1880 Bonamy Price in Fraser's Mag. May 674 He receives a deposit from one man; he loans it out in part..to another.
1896 N. Newnham-Davis Three Men & a God 172 The stalls..are barrack chairs loaned for the occasion.
1904 E. B. Holt tr. H. Münsterberg Americans 10 The industrial advance loaned greater importance to manufacturer and merchant.
1928 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 7/2 Kilbucho, thou hast loaned me great reward—Thy restfulness I know!
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