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Definition loan

Etymology 1

From Middle English lone, lane, from Old Norse lán (“loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihn? (“that which is lent, loan, fief”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyk?- (“to leave, leave over”). Cognate with Icelandic lán (“loan”), Swedish lån (“loan”), Danish lån (“loan”), German Lehen (“fief, feudal estate”), Dutch leen (“fief, feudatory, something lent”), West Frisian lien (“something borrowed, loan”), North Frisian leen (“fief, loan, office”), Scots lane, lain, len (“loan”), Old English l?n (“loan, borrowing, lease, grant, gift, present, benefit”). More at lend.

Noun

loan (plural loans)

1. (banking, finance) A sum of money or other valuables or consideration that an individual, group or other legal entity borrows from another individual, group or legal entity (the latter often being a financial institution) with the condition that it be returned or repaid at a later date (sometimes with interest).
2. The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
3. The permission to borrow any item.

Verb

loan (third-person singular simple present loans, present participle loaning, simple past and past participle loaned)

1. (usually double transitive, US, dated in Britain, informal) To lend (something) to (someone).

Etymology 2

See lawn.

Noun

loan (plural loans)

1. (Scotland) A lonnen.

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