loan
loan is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 37 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 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.
- 3.To lend; -- sometimes with out. Kent. By way of location or loaning them out. J. Langley (1644).
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accommodate
- accommodation
- advance
- bond
- commercial
- demise
- feneration
- home
- interest
- intrust
- invest
- investment
- item
- lease
- lend
- lender
- lending
- lent
- let
- money
- mont
- mortgage
- note
- out
- paper
- pawn
- pawnbroker
- place
- put
- second
- security
- sett
- shark
- unborrowed
- underlet
- usurer
- with
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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