Synonyms:
loan
Meaning: the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
lend, loan
Meaning: give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money"
Usage examples
"Mr. Rapid, it is utterly impossible; but if you insist, I will loan you a Latin book--"
The first loan had four and a half million subscribers; the fourth more than twenty million.
Banks are always willing to loan their funds to responsible persons within reasonable limits.
She had, in accordance with her promise to Mrs. Lynde, written to Miss Barry of Charlottetown, asking for the loan of it.
In the transfer or loan of movable goods, the rent contract was quite overshadowed by the other form of contract, that of a money loan.
The loan had to be arranged in full conclave, as otherwise Mrs. Carroll would have found it difficult to obtain access to her brother's ear.
Congress had voted a huge loan, a country-wide machine of propaganda was being organized, and the oratory of Four Minute Men was echoing from Maine to California.
The only letter addressed to Shakespeare that can be found is one from the happy father of Thomas, Mr. Richard Quiney, wherein he asks for a loan of thirty pounds.
He must agree to repay the loan in goods of the same kind and quality as those received, a contract most difficult to execute, and giving occasion to costly tests and countless disagreements.
So in America, far more than in the older countries, land changes hands by sale, the purchaser going into debt for it, giving his note and paying interest on the loan rather than rent for the farm.