Loan

/ləʊn/ · noun

Meaning

(law, banking, finance) An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use..

Definitions by Sense

1. (law, banking, finance) An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
2. (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).
3. The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
4. The permission to borrow any item.
5. (usually ditransitive, US, dated and occasionally proscribed in UK, informal) To lend (something) to (someone).
6. (Scotland, Northern England) An area of uncultivated ground near a village or farmhouse.

Example Sentences

Because of the loan that John made to me, I was able to pay my tuition for the upcoming semester.

All loans from the library, whether books or audio material, must be returned within two weeks.

He got a loan of five thousand pounds.

That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.

He made a payment on his loan.

Thank you for the loan of your lawn mower.

And while Thompson has yet to make a first-team appearance for Derby, he got experience playing for Braintree Town on loan in the National League earlier this season. Eustace also said that there would be no option to bring in an emergency loan cover for as long as O'Donnell remains fit.

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.

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Word Forms

• loans
• loaning
• loaned

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