loan
1. [ noun ] (business) the provision of money temporarily (usually at interest)
Related terms: debt participation_loan direct_loan installment_credit bank_loan home_equity_credit time_loan call_loan personal_loan mortgage_loan principal lend
2. [ verb ] give temporarily; let have for a limited time
Synonyms: lend
Examples:

"I will lend you my car" "loan me some money"

Related terms: borrow give hire_out advance
3. [ noun ] Woman's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 2483
4. [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 21433
5. [ noun ] (linguistics) a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
Synonyms: loanword
Related terms: word Gallicism
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