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(historical) A program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom (and British Commonwealth), Free France, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945..
Use lend-lease when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lend-lease means (historical) A program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom (and British Commonwealth), Free France, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945..
Common synonyms include lease-lend.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use lend-lease where its definition matches the intended context.
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