What does "loan" mean?
Loan: The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
Additional senses
- 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.
- 3.To lend; -- sometimes with out. Kent. By way of location or loaning them out. J. Langley (1644).
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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