lend-leasen.

1941 Economist 15 Feb. 214/1 Future disposition of the armaments now being produced is before Congress in the ‘Lend-Lease’ Bill.

1942 Times (Weekly ed.) 9 Sept. 9/2 Thousands of barrage balloons were lend-leased to the United States soon after Pearl Harbour.

1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. (recto rear cover) The contribution of experienced pilots and planes in the fight to clear our side of the Atlantic is an element of the Lend-Lease programme in reverse.

1945 W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 178 Your friendship and great help as Lend-Lease Administrator and Secretary of State will always be remembered with gratitude.

1949 I. Deutscher Stalin 512 More than 400,000 lorries were supplied to Russia under Lend-Lease.

1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing i. 18 Your hand, my child, is on lend-lease to a vicious old man.

1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Oct. 625/1 Great Britain has undertaken to lend-lease to the United States nothing less than the Victorian Age in its entirety.

1962 Listener 15 Feb. 307/3 The abrupt ending of Lend-Lease.

1972 National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 3/1 Talks in the State Department are aimed at ending a U.S.-Soviet dispute over lend-lease that goes back to World War II. From 1942 to 1945, the United States supplied Russia with some $10.8 billion in military and civilian equipment under the lend-lease program.

1942 Times (Weekly ed.) 9 Sept. 9/2 Lend-leased British anti-aircraft guns help to defend American cities.