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loan1 /ləʊn /noun1A thing that is borrowed, especially a sum of money that is expected to be paid back with interest: borrowers can take out a loan for £84,000...- If anyone wants to take out a loan, borrow money, or get something on hire purchase, they have to agree to a credit check being done on them to make sure they are safe with other people's money.
- Because if you can deduct interest on a loan, invest the money, and earn tax-free profits, you essentially get a government subsidy for investing.
- Managed financial systems allowed capital accumulation to be financed by bank loans at low interest rates, regulated by the monetary authorities.
Synonyms credit, advance; mortgage, overdraft; debenture; lending, moneylending, advancing British informal sub 1.1An act of lending something to someone: she offered to buy him dinner in return for the loan of the flat...- Many thanks to Harry Fairbairn BMW for the loan of the test car.
- Thanks to Ian Philp Mercedes-Benz in Glasgow for the loan of our test car.
- Many thanks to Arnold Clark Vauxhall in Pollokshields for the loan of our test car.
1.2 short for loanword.Multiple sets of sound correspondences can be used to distinguish loans from inherited words....- Since the 19c, it has also provided loans to European languages including English and French.
- It isn't very common, and as far as I know, all of the words that contain it are loans from French.
verb [with object]Lend (a sum of money or item of property): the computer was loaned to us by the theatre [with two objects]: he knew Rab would not loan him money...- This could use any land to send its sheep to market - including royal - as it loaned large sums to the crown.
- Family and friends loaned money and helped her to buy the former Muslim girls school.
- Any future credits and moneys loaned will be loaned at a rate of seven percent usury.
Synonyms lend, advance, give credit, credit, allow; give on loan, give someone the loan of, let someone have the use of, let out, lease, charter, hire British informal sub borrow, ask for the loan of, receive/take on loan, use temporarily PhrasesDerivativesloanable /ˈləʊnəb(ə)l / adjective ...- Professor Robertson implies… that the loanable funds theory has a close connection with the ‘real forces’ of ‘productivity and thrift’ which is absent in the Keynesian theory.
- And, importantly, no longer are market rates determined through the interaction of the demand for borrowings with a limited supply of loanable funds.
- The conventional wisdom among economists is that prolonged deficits will raise interest rates as borrowers are crowded out of credit and loanable funds markets, thus negatively affecting long-term economic growth.
loanee /ləʊˈniː/ noun ...- New India Assurance Company and State Bank of India have joined hands to provide accident insurance cover to all loanees of the bank availing housing and car loans.
- He said there were a large number of loanees who would like to benefit from a low interest rate regime now to get their old loans taken over by a financier who provides finances at cheaper rates.
- Alternatives, including short and long-term loanees, are being explored, but according to Worthington, there is still a lack of availability.
loaner /ˈləʊnə / noun ...- There is an inescapable irony that what began for him - and indeed the donors or loaners - as an aspirational dream of ermine has ended in the social indignity that only the threat of the policeman's knock can bring.
- I'm genuinely touched by this, and as a fellow scooter rider, might try to make the ride - but I'll need a 150 cc loaner.
- In the 1980s, the Conservative Party also received loans that magically resulted in the loaner getting a peerage, and it still does the same thing today.
OriginMiddle English (also denoting a gift from a superior): from Old Norse lán, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch leen, German Lehn, also to lend. Rhymesalone, atone, Beaune, bemoan, blown, bone, Capone, clone, Cohn, Cologne, condone, cone, co-own, crone, drone, enthrone, flown, foreknown, foreshown, groan, grown, half-tone, home-grown, hone, Joan, known, leone, lone, mephedrone, moan, Mon, mown, ochone, outflown, outgrown, own, phone, pone, prone, Rhône, roan, rone, sewn, shown, Simone, Sloane, Soane, sone, sown, stone, strown, throne, thrown, tone, trombone, Tyrone, unbeknown, undersown, windblown, zone loan2 /ləʊn /(also loaning /ˈləʊnɪŋ/) noun [usually in place names] Scottish1A lane or narrow path, especially one leading to open ground: Whitehouse Loan 1.1An open, uncultivated piece of land where cows are milked. OriginLate Middle English variant of lane. |