lend
/lɛnd
/- She took off the jacket Jay lent her and returned it to him.
- We give them what they want and in return they lend us what we want.
- When Virginia goes to England, she lends me her car: a Peugeot convertible with English plates.
Synonyms
- So why are banks falling all over themselves to lend small businesses money?
- When a bank lends you money, the loan comes with strings attached - namely, the covenants contained in the loan agreement.
- They're lending the American government money in exchange for interest.
- The concentration of structures in space lends an urban quality even to small villages.
- To lend weight to this, he adds the interpretation of a social scientist and an academician.
- This lends weight to the theory that autism is a neurodevelopmental condition and not an acquired one.
Synonyms
- There are some who will observe the period, but it is not something that we lend ourselves to.
- He lent himself to an illusion, he lent himself to misleading the African people.
- The actor has been lending himself to book launches recently, starting with Vikram Seth's Two Lives way back in October.
- The plastic blocks are lighter, lending themselves to more applications, and easier to install.
- I've got the first one, and the stories really lend themselves to the comic format.
- On the other hand my books don't lend themselves to movies and they tend to violate basic laws of fiction writing.
Synonyms
Usage
1 Reciprocal pairs of words such as lend and borrow (or teach and learn) are often confused. Common uses in informal speech in a number of British dialects include can I lend your pen? (correct standard use is can I borrow your pen?). 2 There is no noun lend in standard English, where loan is the correct word to use. However, it is used informally in a number of dialects and varieties, including Scottish, Northern Irish, and northern English, as in, for example, can I have a lend of your pen?.
Phrases
lend an ear (or one's ears)
lend a hand (or a helping hand)
lend one's name to
Derivatives
lendable
- The CRR was reduced from 5.5 per cent to 5.0 per cent in June 2002 and further to 4.75 per cent in November 2002 augmenting the lendable resources of banks by about Rs.10,000 crore.
- Keep in mind that the financial sector - through financial credit creation - is the dominant supplier of lendable funds.
Origin
Old English lǣnan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lenen, also to loan1. The addition of the final -d in late Middle English was due to association with verbs such as bend and send.