loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊn/
ipa: /loʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: lone
Forms: form: loans
Etymology: From Middle English lone, lane, from Old Norse lán, from Proto-Germanic *laihną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave (over)”).
Cognate with Icelandic lán, Swedish lån, Danish lån, German Lehen (“fief”), Dutch leen (“fief”), West Frisian lien, North Frisian leen (“fief; loan; office”), Scots lane, lain, len, Old English lǣn. More at lend.
Senses: examples: text: Because of the loan that John made to me, I was able to pay my tuition for the upcoming semester.
topics: banking
business
finance
law
synonyms: loaning
lending
glosses: An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
examples: text: All loans from the library, whether books or audio material, must be returned within two weeks.
text: He got a loan of five thousand pounds.
text: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
topics: banking
business
finance
law
synonyms: principal
glosses: A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).
examples: text: He made a payment on his loan.
glosses: The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
examples: text: Thank you for the loan of your lawn mower.
glosses: The permission to borrow any item.
Hypernyms: sense: something borrowed
word: bailment
Hyponyms: sense: something borrowed
word: mutuum
sense: something borrowed
word: commodatum
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from loan (noun)
word: air loan
sense: Terms derived from loan (noun)
word: auto loan
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word: back-to-back loan
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word: behest loan
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word: blanket loan
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word: bridge loan
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word: bridging loan
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word: bullet loan
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word: call loan
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word: caveat loan
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word: collateralized loan obligation
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word: conventional mortgage loan
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word: director's loan
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word: false loan
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word: home loan
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word: installment loan
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word: interlibrary loan
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word: interloan
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word: juice loan
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word: liar loan
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word: liberty loan
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word: loan-back
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word: loanback
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word: loan blend
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word: loanblend
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word: loan-blend
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word: loan car
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word: loan coinage
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word: loan creation
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word: loan formation
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word: loanholder
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word: loan meaning
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word: loanmonger
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word: loan officer
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word: loan rendering
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word: loan rendition
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word: loan shark
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word: loanshark
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word: loan sharking
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word: loanshift
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word: loan term
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word: loan translation
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word: loan word
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word: loanword
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word: loanworthy
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word: low-doc loan
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word: maritime loan
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word: microloan
sense: Terms derived from loan (noun)
word: miniloan
sense: Terms derived from loan (noun)
word: NINA loan
sense: Terms derived from loan (noun)
word: NINJA loan
sense: Terms derived from loan (noun)
word: ninja loan
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word: non-performing loan
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word: on loan
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word: on-loan
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word: payday loan
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word: permanent loan
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word: pseudo-loan
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word: reloan
sense: Terms derived from loan (noun)
word: revolving loan
sense: Terms derived from loan (noun)
word: savings and loan
sense: Terms derived from loan (noun)
word: savings and loan association
sense: Terms derived from loan (noun)
word: secured loan
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word: semantic loan
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word: soft loan
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word: standby loan
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word: stated income loan
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word: stock loan
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word: student loan
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word: swing loan
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word: term loan
sense: Terms derived from loan (noun)
word: time loan
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word: title loan
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word: upstream loan