lend, loan

lend, loan
Loan has long been established as a verb, especially in business circles (loan the firm some money), but lend is considered preferable by many careful writers and speakers: "I refused to lend (not loan) him my car for the evening." Loan (not lend) should be used as a noun. If you prefer to use lend rather than loan as a verb (perhaps because "Distance loans enchantment" sounds odd), remember that the past tense and past participle are lent: "The bank lent him money yesterday." "The bank has lent him money many times."

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  • lend / loan / borrow —    Lend is a verb that mean to temporarily give something to someone : Lucy will lend or loan Chuck her books any day.    A loan is a noun meaning something borrowed: Most people get a bank loan to buy a house. Loan is also used in American… …   Confused words

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  • lend, loan —    Loan as a verb ( He loaned me some money ) is now more or less standard in America and is found increasingly throughout the rest of the English speaking world. However, most British authorities and some American ones continue to urge that the… …   Dictionary of troublesome word

  • lend, loan —    Loan as a verb ( He loaned me some money ) is now more or less standard in America and is found increasingly throughout the rest of the English speaking world. However, most British authorities and some American ones continue to urge that the… …   Dictionary of troublesome word

  • borrow / lend / loan —    Borrow is to receive something from someone temporarily: to borrow a book and then return it.    Lend is a verb that mean to temporarily give something to someone : Henry will lend (or loan) Francine a book.    Loan is a noun: a bank loan.… …   Confused words

  • loan — [[t]loʊn[/t]] n. 1) the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something: the loan of a book[/ex] 2) something lent or furnished on condition of being returned, esp. a sum of money lent at interest 3) cvb ling. loanword 4) to make a loan …   From formal English to slang

  • loan — See lend. See lend, loan …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

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  • Lend-Lease — (Public Law 77 11) [http://books.google.com/books?id=hUoIaQqipboC pg=PA28 Crossed Currents By Jean Ebbert, Marie Beth Hall, Edward Latimer Beach] was the name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom,… …   Wikipedia

  • LOAN — (Heb. הַלְוָאָה, halva ah), a transaction in which a thing, usually money, is given by one person, called the malveh ( lender ), to another, called the loveh ( borrower ), for the latter s use and enjoyment, and in order that such thing or its… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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