loan

loan
loan1 W2S2 [ləun US loun] n
[Date: 1100-1200; : Old Norse; Origin: lan]
1.)
an amount of money that you borrow from a bank etc
loan of
▪ a loan of £60,000
▪ 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 .
2.) [singular]
when you lend something to someone
loan of
▪ Thanks for the loan of your camera.
3.) on loan (from sb/sth)
if something or someone is on loan, they have been borrowed
▪ The book I wanted was out on loan.
▪ paintings on loan from the Louvre
▪ Cantona initially went on loan to Leeds United.
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COLLOCATES for sense 1
take out a loan (=borrow money)
repay/pay off/pay back a loan (=give back money you have borrowed)
make a loan American English (=give someone a loan)
bank loan (=money lent by a bank)
car/home loan (=a loan to buy a car etc)
personal loan (=money lent to anindividual )
business loan (=money lent to a business)
student loan (=money lent to students to pay for university)
interest-free loan (=a loan on which you only repay the amount you borrowed)
loan repayment
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loan 2
loan2 v [T]
1.) AmE to lend someone something, especially money
loan sb sth
▪ Can you loan me $5?
▪ Jeff's loaned us his car for the weekend.
2.) also loan out
BrE to lend something valuable to someone
▪ The National Library has loaned several manuscripts.
loan sth to sb/sth
▪ Two of the steam trains have been loaned to other railways.

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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  • Loan — Loan, n. [OE. lone, lane, AS. l[=a]n, l[ae]n, fr. le[ o]n to lend; akin to D. leen loan, fief, G. lehen fief, Icel. l[=a]n, G. leihen to lend, OHG. l[=i]han, Icel. lj[=i], Goth. leihwan, L. linquere to leave, Gr. lei pein, Skr. ric. [root]119. Cf …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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