A lender is a person or an institution that lends money to people.
[business]
...the six leading mortgage lenders.
COBUILD Collocations
lender
specialist lender
Examples of 'lender' in a sentence
lender
Got to get the mortgage lenders on side, though.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We then received a letter from our mortgage lender, saying that we may wish to appeal the notice.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He is collecting groups of clients according to their mortgage lender, and preparing to launch various group actions.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Money from individual lenders is put together to fund borrowers seeking personal or small business loans and in some cases buy-to-let mortgages.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
These actions came as a result of my own naivety, driven by a desire to strengthen regulations on payday lenders and protect vulnerable consumers.
The Sun (2016)
Last week Germany's largest lender was pitched into crisis.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Most mortgage lenders require a minimum term of at least 65 years, but some demand a longer lease.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The Bank of England has given big lenders two extra years to beef up their protections against a taxpayer bailout.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He adds that although lending is riskier and more expensive for lenders because of higher capital requirements, banks are'not short of capital at the moment.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Most large lenders and brokers have calculators on their websites which allow you to check both.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Mortgage lenders there extended loans to people with weak credit histories.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
What the widely reviled money lenders need is a bit of an image makeover.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The remaining mortgage can come from any high street lender if your equity loan is small.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We can tackle payday lenders in the same way as we can tackle the big energy firms.
The Sun (2013)
Mortgage experts say that other high street lenders are likely to follow suit.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Large spending on credit cards may worry mortgage lenders.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The former physicist is aiming to loosen the stranglehold of the big five high street lenders.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The biggest high street lenders refuse to consider profits left in a limited company.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
That scandal has already cost high street lenders billions of pounds in compensation.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
By and large, lenders have not done this.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
To tackle high street payroll lenders, it set up a second branch close by them.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Many lenders provide interest-only mortgages but only for those with larger deposits.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is thought that high street lenders are sitting on losses worth hundreds of millions of pounds from loans secured by criminal means.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The numbers were supplied to Money by the lenders and are based on the experience of their own borrowers.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
On completion day, your solicitor will pay the rest of the money from your lender to the seller.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Lenders' online calculators highlight the differences in the maximum loans that the largest mortgage lenders will offer to borrowers.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Unions are often the cheapest way to borrow up to 2,000 and can be competitive with other lenders on larger amounts.
The Sun (2013)
The fund currently stands at just under 13 million and the company says that none of its lenders have lost money.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
What about the payday lenders?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Investors have also been shunning the bonds issued by big lenders, amid fears that they will not get their money back.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Mortgage lenders fear rising unemployment will DOUBLE the number of people struggling to meet repayments.
The Sun (2009)
The big four lenders control about 77% of personal current accounts and 85% of business accounts.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Ireland's second-biggest lender made big bets in the property sector and its portfolio was worse than expected.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Troops in America already have their own credit union, set up to combat payday lenders targeting military bases.
The Sun (2013)
In other languages
lender
British English: lender NOUN
A lender is a person or an institution that lends money to people.
...the six leading mortgage lenders.
American English: lender
Brazilian Portuguese: emprestador
Chinese: 贷方
European Spanish: prestamista
French: prêteur
German: Verleiher
Italian: prestatore
Japanese: 貸し手
Korean: 대출자
European Portuguese: emprestador
Latin American Spanish: prestamista
All related terms of 'lender'
payday lender
A payday lender is a company that lends small amounts of money for a short time, usually at a very high rate of interest.
mortgage lender
a financial institution which provides money to borrowers for mortgages
specialist lender
A lender is a person or an institution that lends money to people.
lender of last resort
the central bank of a country with authority for controlling its banking system
moneylender
A moneylender is a person who lends money which has to be paid back at a high rate of interest.