Definitions for lend-lease

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Spelling: [lend-lees]

IPA: /ˈlɛndˈlis/

Lend-Lease is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in lend-lease (-adeeellns).

Definitions for lend-lease

noun

1. the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war.
2. the two-way transfer of ideas, styles, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to supply (matériel or services) as authorized by the Lend-Lease Act.

Origin of lend-lease

First recorded in 1935-40

Examples for lend-lease

During the war, 15 cents of each dollar of our war expenditures was for lend-lease aid.

The main sources of the increase were lend-lease ships from the United States and war reparations.

Forget our military involvement; this begins with lend-lease.

Negotiations with other lend-lease countries are in progress.

That we're here is a sort of lend-lease in reverse, you might say.

The first of the lend-lease settlement agreements has been completed with the United Kingdom.