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单词 lease-lend
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lease-lendn.

Brit. /ˌliːsˈlɛnd/, U.S. /ˌlisˈlɛnd/
Forms: Also lease and lend and lend-lease n.
Etymology: < lease v.3 + lend v.2
At first (in 1941) applied to an arrangement whereby sites in British overseas possessions were leased to the United States as bases in exchange for the loan of U.S. destroyers; later in extended uses. Also attributive and as v.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [noun] > supply from U.S.
lease-lend1941
lend-lease1941
1941 Economist 1 Feb. 139/2 The great reduction in American payments under the ‘Lease and Lend’ Bill.
1941 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 9 July–30 Sept. 48 Mr Harry Hopkins.. in charge of the administration of the Lease-Lend Act, arrives in England again.
1942 Ann. Reg. 1941 19 The signing of the Lease and Lend Bill in the United States on March 11..caused great rejoicing in England.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 24 The Canadians argued that by lease-lend the Old Man would get one [a Jeep].
1943 Daily Tel. 23 Oct. 4 Britain's new aircraft-carrier Victorious was ‘Lease-lent’ to the United States.
1944 G. B. Shaw Everybody's Polit. What's What? xv. 120 Under the American Lease and Lend arrangements England and Russia are borrowing their war stores from the United States.
1945 Reader's Digest July 47/1 Hatch has been particularly successful in ‘breeding up’ the poultry and livestock of the country by lease-lending his pure~bred bulls.
1964 Daily Tel. 19 May 28/6 To-night 40 Eastbourne policemen were sent to Brighton. They formed part of a ‘lease-lend’ arrangement entered into by Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings police forces to help each other out in case of riots.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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