loan
v. lend a sum of money for a period of time; give temporarily, lend n. amount of money that has been borrowed; something borrowed; act of giving temporarily | ||||
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Loan Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary |
Loan
If you borrow $1 million dollars, it is said that you have taken out a loan for $1 million dollars.
If you borrow $1 million dollars, it is said that you have taken out a loan for $1 million dollars.
Loan Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Loan
(n.)
The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
(n.)
That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.
(n.)
A loanin.
(n. t.)
To lend; -- sometimes with out.
(n.)
The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
(n.)
That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.
(n.)
A loanin.
(n. t.)
To lend; -- sometimes with out.
| WordNet 2.0 |
loan
Noun
1. the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
(hypernym) debt
(hyponym) bank loan
(part-meronym) principal
(derivation) lend
2. a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
(synonym) loanword
(hypernym) word
(hyponym) Gallicism
Verb
1. give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money"
(synonym) lend
(hypernym) give
(hyponym) hire out, rent out, farm out
Noun
1. the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
(hypernym) debt
(hyponym) bank loan
(part-meronym) principal
(derivation) lend
2. a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
(synonym) loanword
(hypernym) word
(hyponym) Gallicism
Verb
1. give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money"
(synonym) lend
(hypernym) give
(hyponym) hire out, rent out, farm out
| hEnglish - advanced version |
loan
loan
\loan\, n. t. [imp. & p. p. loaned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. loaning.] to lend; -- sometimes with out. by way of location or loaning them out. langley (1644).
loan
\loan\ (?), n. [see lawn.] a loanin. [scot.]
loan
\loan\, n. [oe. lone, lane, as. lān, l?n, fr. le?n to lend; akin to d. leen loan, fief, g. lehen fief, icel. lān, g. leihen to lend, ohg. līhan, icel. ljī, goth. leihwan, l. linquere to leave, gr. &?;, skr. ric. &?; cf. delinquent, eclipse, eleven, ellipse, lend, license, relic.]
1. the act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
2. that which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.
loan
office. (a) an office at which loans are negotiated, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender. (b) a pawnbroker's shop.
similar words(14)
maritime loan
interbank loan
loan participation
installment loan
loan shark
loan application
loan collection
loan translation
real estate loan
loan office
time loan
mortgage loan
loan approval
industrial loan company
loan
\loan\, n. t. [imp. & p. p. loaned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. loaning.] to lend; -- sometimes with out. by way of location or loaning them out. langley (1644).
loan
\loan\ (?), n. [see lawn.] a loanin. [scot.]
loan
\loan\, n. [oe. lone, lane, as. lān, l?n, fr. le?n to lend; akin to d. leen loan, fief, g. lehen fief, icel. lān, g. leihen to lend, ohg. līhan, icel. ljī, goth. leihwan, l. linquere to leave, gr. &?;, skr. ric. &?; cf. delinquent, eclipse, eleven, ellipse, lend, license, relic.]
1. the act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
2. that which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.
loan
office. (a) an office at which loans are negotiated, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender. (b) a pawnbroker's shop.
similar words(14)
maritime loan
interbank loan
loan participation
installment loan
loan shark
loan application
loan collection
loan translation
real estate loan
loan office
time loan
mortgage loan
loan approval
industrial loan company
| JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary |
Cyfechwyn
Cyfechwyn = n. joint loan
Cyfechwyn = n. joint loan
Cyfnaid
Cyfnaid = a. of mutual loan
Echwyn
Echwyn = n. a loan, or hire
Loan Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Easton's Bible Dictionary |
Loan
The Mosaic law required that when an Israelite needed to borrow, what he asked was to be freely lent to him, and no interest was to be charged, although interest might be taken of a foreigner (Ex. 22:25; Deut. 23:19, 20; Lev. 25:35-38). At the end of seven years all debts were remitted. Of a foreigner the loan might, however, be exacted. At a later period of the Hebrew commonwealth, when commerce increased, the practice of exacting usury or interest on loans, and of suretiship in the commercial sense, grew up. Yet the exaction of it from a Hebrew was regarded as discreditable (Ps. 15:5; Prov. 6:1, 4; 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 27:13; Jer. 15:10). Limitations are prescribed by the law to the taking of a pledge from the borrower. The outer garment in which a man slept at night, if taken in pledge, was to be returned before sunset (Ex. 22:26, 27; Deut. 24:12, 13). A widow's garment (Deut. 24:17) and a millstone (6) could not be taken. A creditor could not enter the house to reclaim a pledge, but must remain outside till the borrower brought it (10, 11). The Hebrew debtor could not be retained in bondage longer than the seventh year, or at farthest the year of jubilee (Ex. 21:2; Lev. 25:39, 42), but foreign sojourners were to be "bondmen for ever" (Lev. 25:44-54).
The Mosaic law required that when an Israelite needed to borrow, what he asked was to be freely lent to him, and no interest was to be charged, although interest might be taken of a foreigner (Ex. 22:25; Deut. 23:19, 20; Lev. 25:35-38). At the end of seven years all debts were remitted. Of a foreigner the loan might, however, be exacted. At a later period of the Hebrew commonwealth, when commerce increased, the practice of exacting usury or interest on loans, and of suretiship in the commercial sense, grew up. Yet the exaction of it from a Hebrew was regarded as discreditable (Ps. 15:5; Prov. 6:1, 4; 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 27:13; Jer. 15:10). Limitations are prescribed by the law to the taking of a pledge from the borrower. The outer garment in which a man slept at night, if taken in pledge, was to be returned before sunset (Ex. 22:26, 27; Deut. 24:12, 13). A widow's garment (Deut. 24:17) and a millstone (6) could not be taken. A creditor could not enter the house to reclaim a pledge, but must remain outside till the borrower brought it (10, 11). The Hebrew debtor could not be retained in bondage longer than the seventh year, or at farthest the year of jubilee (Ex. 21:2; Lev. 25:39, 42), but foreign sojourners were to be "bondmen for ever" (Lev. 25:44-54).
| Smith's Bible Dictionary |
Loan
The law strictly forbade any interest to be taken for a loan to any poor person, and at first, as it seems, even in the case of a foreigner; but this prohibition was afterward limited to Hebrews only, from whom, of whatever rank, not only was no usury on any pretence to be exacted, but relief to the poor by way of loan was enjoined, and excuses for evading this duty were forbidden. (Exodus 22:25; Leviticus 25:35,37) As commerce increased, the practice of usury, and so also of suretyship, grew up; but the exaction of it from a Hebrew appears to have been regarded to a late period as discreditable. (Psalms 15:5; Proverbs 6:1,4; 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 22:26; Jeremiah 15:10; Ezekiel 18:13) Systematic breach of the law in this respect was corrected by Nehemiah after the return from captivity. (Nehemiah 5:1,13) The money-changers, who had seats and tables in the temple, where traders whose profits arose chiefly from the exchange of money with those who came to pay their annual half-shekel. The Jewish law did not forbid temporary bondage in the case of debtors, but it forbade a Hebrew debtor to be detained as a bondman longer than the seventh year, or at farthest the year of jubilee. (Exodus 21:2; Leviticus 25:39,42; 15:9)
The law strictly forbade any interest to be taken for a loan to any poor person, and at first, as it seems, even in the case of a foreigner; but this prohibition was afterward limited to Hebrews only, from whom, of whatever rank, not only was no usury on any pretence to be exacted, but relief to the poor by way of loan was enjoined, and excuses for evading this duty were forbidden. (Exodus 22:25; Leviticus 25:35,37) As commerce increased, the practice of usury, and so also of suretyship, grew up; but the exaction of it from a Hebrew appears to have been regarded to a late period as discreditable. (Psalms 15:5; Proverbs 6:1,4; 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 22:26; Jeremiah 15:10; Ezekiel 18:13) Systematic breach of the law in this respect was corrected by Nehemiah after the return from captivity. (Nehemiah 5:1,13) The money-changers, who had seats and tables in the temple, where traders whose profits arose chiefly from the exchange of money with those who came to pay their annual half-shekel. The Jewish law did not forbid temporary bondage in the case of debtors, but it forbade a Hebrew debtor to be detained as a bondman longer than the seventh year, or at farthest the year of jubilee. (Exodus 21:2; Leviticus 25:39,42; 15:9)
Loan Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Loan (verb)
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Loan Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Loan Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Loan
A loan is a type of debt. All material things can be lent but this article focuses exclusively on monetary loans. Like all debt instruments, a loan entails the redistribution of financial assets over time, between the and the .
The borrower initially receives an amount of money from the lender, which they pay back, usually but not always in regular installments, to the lender. This service is generally provided at a cost, referred to as interest on the debt. A borrower may be subject to certain restrictions known as loan covenants under the terms of the loan.
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