Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making a loan: as, the lending of money.
- noun That which is lent or furnished; something not one's own; a borrowed article.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who lends.
- noun That which is lent or furnished.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That lends.
- noun
Action of the verb to lend. - verb Present participle of
lend .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned
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Examples
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On Meet the Press, Paulson again alluded to “excesses” — “excesses building up for sometime in this country” — and elaborated a bit: “bad lending practices, irresponsible borrowing, irresponsible lending .
Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 9-21-08: In Which a Whole World View Collapses With Little Notice 2008
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Forbes: In terms of scale, the size of a bank for lending, is there a point where being bigger does not make you more efficient in lending?
Transcript: Richard Bove Steve Forbes 2010
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We have taken Emma to countless doctors, and any number of people with letters following their name lending them some authority or knowledge on autism.
Ariane Zurcher: Waging War Ariane Zurcher 2012
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We have taken Emma to countless doctors, and any number of people with letters following their name lending them some authority or knowledge on autism.
Ariane Zurcher: Waging War Ariane Zurcher 2012
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We have taken Emma to countless doctors, and any number of people with letters following their name lending them some authority or knowledge on autism.
Ariane Zurcher: Waging War Ariane Zurcher 2012
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Forbes: In terms of scale, the size of a bank for lending, is there a point where being bigger does not make you more efficient in lending?
Transcript: Richard Bove Steve Forbes 2010
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Forbes: In terms of scale, the size of a bank for lending, is there a point where being bigger does not make you more efficient in lending?
Get Briefed: Richard Bove Alexandra Zendrian 2010
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We have taken Emma to countless doctors, and any number of people with letters following their name lending them some authority or knowledge on autism.
Ariane Zurcher: Waging War Ariane Zurcher 2012
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Forbes: In terms of scale, the size of a bank for lending, is there a point where being bigger does not make you more efficient in lending?
Get Briefed: Richard Bove Alexandra Zendrian 2010
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We have taken Emma to countless doctors, and any number of people with letters following their name lending them some authority or knowledge on autism.
Ariane Zurcher: Waging War Ariane Zurcher 2012
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