loan¹ /lōn/

1. Anything lent, esp money at interest
2. The act of lending
3. The condition of being lent
4. An arrangement for lending
5. Permission to use
6. A loan word

To lend

loanˈable adjective

loaneeˈ noun

loanˈer noun

loanˈback noun

A facility available from some life-assurance companies whereby a person may borrow from the sum he or she has invested

loan collection noun

Privately-owned works of art lent by their owner for a public exhibition

loanˈ-holdˈer noun

A person who holds security for a loan

loanˈ-office noun

1. A public office at which loans are negotiated, received, or recorded
2. A pawnshop

loan shark noun (informal)

A person who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest, a usurer

loan sharking noun

loanˈ-society noun

A society organized to subscribe money to be lent

loan translation noun

A compound, phrase, etc that is a literal translation of a foreign expression, such as English motorway from German Autobahn, German Fernsehen from English television (also called a calque; see under calk³)

loan word noun

A word taken into one's own language from another language, generally with slight adaptation

on loan

Given as a loan

loan² /lōn/ or loaning /lōˈning/ (Scot)

1. A lane
2. An open space for passage left between fields of corn
3. A place for milking cows

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