Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the temporary transfer of goods and services to an ally to aid in a common cause.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the transfer of goods and services to an ally to aid in a common cause
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Examples
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They rounded up the inhabitants at gunpoint, herded them into American Studebaker trucks supplied under the lend-lease program, and drove them to the Grozny railway station, where they were packed into cattle wagons.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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They rounded up the inhabitants at gunpoint, herded them into American Studebaker trucks supplied under the lend-lease program, and drove them to the Grozny railway station, where they were packed into cattle wagons.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The War Department had committed itself to a policy of “keeping China in the War” and providing the Chungking government, with Chiang Kai-shek as its president, with a major portion of lend-lease supplies.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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He also had to lead public opinion when he called for rearmament and the first peacetime draft and lend-lease aid to Britain, because he foresaw war with Hitler.
Robert Kuttner: Looking for Some Good News Robert Kuttner 2011
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He also had to lead public opinion when he called for rearmament and the first peacetime draft and lend-lease aid to Britain, because he foresaw war with Hitler.
Robert Kuttner: Looking for Some Good News Robert Kuttner 2011
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The major was particularly disgusted by the fact that the undisciplined Dutch troops were making use of American trucks, clearly marked with the U.S. insignia, which they had somehow hijacked from a recent lend-lease shipment.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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The War Department had committed itself to a policy of “keeping China in the War” and providing the Chungking government, with Chiang Kai-shek as its president, with a major portion of lend-lease supplies.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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The major was particularly disgusted by the fact that the undisciplined Dutch troops were making use of American trucks, clearly marked with the U.S. insignia, which they had somehow hijacked from a recent lend-lease shipment.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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They rounded up the inhabitants at gunpoint, herded them into American Studebaker trucks supplied under the lend-lease program, and drove them to the Grozny railway station, where they were packed into cattle wagons.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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He also had to lead public opinion when he called for rearmament and the first peacetime draft and lend-lease aid to Britain, because he foresaw war with Hitler.
Robert Kuttner: Looking for Some Good News Robert Kuttner 2011
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