Definitions for loans

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loans loan

Spelling: [lohn]

IPA: /loʊn/

Loans is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in loans (alnos).

Definitions for loans

noun

1. the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
2. something lent or furnished on condition of being returned, especially a sum of money lent at interest:
3. loanword.
4. a country lane; secondary road.
5. an uncultivated plot of farmland, usually used for milking cows.

Idioms

1. on loan, borrowed for temporary use: temporarily provided or released by one's regular employer, superior, or owner for use by another:

verb (used with object)

1. to make a loan of; lend:
2. to lend (money) at interest.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a loan or loans; lend.

Origin of loans

1150-1200; Middle English lon(e), lan(e) (noun), Old English lān Old Norse lān; replacing its cognate, Old English lǣn loan, grant, cognate with Dutch leen loan, German Leh(e)n fief; cf.

Examples for loans

Young Sparrow must either starve or ask his neighbor to help him with a loan.

What were the terms of the loan—did the Hermitage pay and if not, why not?

"Throw me the loan of a trusty Bartly, for a cushion," said he.

He continues to search for a loan to renovate his beloved Hotel Pourquoi Pas?

If it be a loan, Seor, I fear that the time is not opportune.

With a $20,000 loan from a friend, matched from her own funds and credit, Roberts got a full line up and running in early 2013.

He must go and humbly he must ask for the loan of a small sum of money.

He jokes about going through airport security with the then 800-year-old document, which is now on loan to the National Archives.

This loan has done nothing to deter the hardliners: just ask the current occupants of Evin prison.

Mr. Mercier obtained from the city of Montreal the loan of fifteen picked men.