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Meaning of 'loan' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Loan [ n.]
- A loanin.
- The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
- That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.
2 . Loan [ n. t.]
- To lend; -- sometimes with out.

Meaning of 'loan' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . loan [ v]
Meaning (1):
- give temporarily; let have for a limited time
Example in sentence:
  • I will lend you my car;
  • loan me some money

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