lend / loan / borrow — Lend is a verb that mean to temporarily give something to someone : Lucy will lend or loan Chuck her books any day. A loan is a noun meaning something borrowed: Most people get a bank loan to buy a house. Loan is also used in American… … Confused words
lend / loan / borrow — Lend is a verb that mean to temporarily give something to someone : Lucy will lend or loan Chuck her books any day. A loan is a noun meaning something borrowed: Most people get a bank loan to buy a house. Loan is also used in American… … Confused words
lend, loan — Loan has long been established as a verb, especially in business circles (loan the firm some money), but lend is considered preferable by many careful writers and speakers: I refused to lend (not loan) him my car for the evening. Loan (not lend)… … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
lend, loan — Loan as a verb ( He loaned me some money ) is now more or less standard in America and is found increasingly throughout the rest of the English speaking world. However, most British authorities and some American ones continue to urge that the… … Dictionary of troublesome word
borrow / lend / loan — Borrow is to receive something from someone temporarily: to borrow a book and then return it. Lend is a verb that mean to temporarily give something to someone : Henry will lend (or loan) Francine a book. Loan is a noun: a bank loan.… … Confused words
loan — [[t]loʊn[/t]] n. 1) the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something: the loan of a book[/ex] 2) something lent or furnished on condition of being returned, esp. a sum of money lent at interest 3) cvb ling. loanword 4) to make a loan … From formal English to slang
loan — See lend. See lend, loan … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
lend — See lend, loan … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
Lend-Lease — (Public Law 77 11) [http://books.google.com/books?id=hUoIaQqipboC pg=PA28 Crossed Currents By Jean Ebbert, Marie Beth Hall, Edward Latimer Beach] was the name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom,… … Wikipedia
LOAN — (Heb. הַלְוָאָה, halva ah), a transaction in which a thing, usually money, is given by one person, called the malveh ( lender ), to another, called the loveh ( borrower ), for the latter s use and enjoyment, and in order that such thing or its… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
