Lend

/ˈlɛnd/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
2. (intransitive) To make a loan.
3. (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
4. To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
5. (proscribed) To borrow.
6. (chiefly dialectal, with "the") Loan (permission to borrow (something)).
7. (anatomy, UK dialectal) The lumbar region; loin.
8. (UK dialectal, of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.

Example Sentences

I will only lend you my car if you fill up the tank.

Where is that hundred euros I lent you months ago?

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

Poems do not lend themselves to translation easily.

The long history of the past does not lend itself to a simple black and white interpretation.

Can you lend me some assistance?

The famous director lent his name to the new film.

[…] Cato, lend me for a vvhile thy Patience, / And condeſcend to hear a young Man ſpeak.

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• lends
• lending
• lent
• leynd
• leind
• lind
• lende

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