loan
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
loan (plural loans)
- (law, banking, finance) An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
- Synonyms: loaning, lending
- Because of the loan that John made to me, I was able to pay my tuition for the upcoming semester.
- (law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).
- Synonyms: principal
- All loans from the library, whether books or audio material, must be returned within two weeks.
- He got a loan of five thousand pounds.
- The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
- He made a payment on his loan.
- The permission to borrow any item.
- Thank you for the loan of your lawn mower.
- French: prêt, emprunt
- German: Leihe, Darlehen
- Italian: prestito (small sum), mutuo (big amount/long term)
- Portuguese: empréstimo
- Russian: заём
- Spanish: préstamo
- French: contrat de prêt
- German: Darlehensvertrag
- Italian: prestito small sum, mutuo big amount/long term
- Portuguese: empréstimo
- Russian: заём
- Spanish: préstamo, empréstito
loan (loans, present participle loaning; past and past participle loaned)
- (usually double transitive, US, dated in UK, informal) To lend (something) to (someone).
- 1820 June 1, William King, in 1820, Letters to James Monroe: President of the United States, from William King,
- In the course of a correspondence that passed between us at this period, he mentioned, to my utter astonishment, the fact of his having loaned Neilson 81000 to buy my bill on Maryland; and stated that he could not proceed to make the payment until Neilson refunded the money.
- 1992, Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, page 30 ↗,
- All the rest—six out of eleven, more than half—were loaned to him.
- 2015, Joanne M. Flood, Wiley GAAP 2015: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, page 574 ↗,
- Upon maturity of the debt, the investment bank returns the loaned shares.
- On the date of issuance, the entity should record the loaned shares at their fair value and recognize them as an issuance cost, with an offset to additional paid-in capital.
- 1820 June 1, William King, in 1820, Letters to James Monroe: President of the United States, from William King,
- French: prêter
- German: ausleihen, leihen
- Italian: prestare
- Portuguese: emprestar
- Russian: ссужа́ть
- Spanish: prestar
loan (plural loans)
- (Scotland) A lonnen.
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