Loan - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English (syn: loanword)
verb
Extra examples
He got a car loan.
He'll need several more years to pay off the rest of the loan.
She needed money, so she asked her friend for a loan.
The National Gallery has been kind enough to loan this painting to our museum.
His mother loaned him the money to buy a new car.
Can you loan me $20?
The painting was on loan to the National Gallery from the Louvre.
I had to take out a loan to buy my car.
It'll be years before we've paid off the loan.
The organization was allowed to make loans to private businesses.
I'll get a bank loan if necessary.
The average home loan is now almost triple what it was at the beginning of the Eighties.
An interest-free loan fund is available for students who find themselves in unforeseen financial difficulty.
They were unable to keep up with their loan repayments.
Thanks for the loan of your camera.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: loan
he/she/it: loans
present participle: loaning
past tense: loaned
past participle: loaned
singular: loan
plural: loans
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