loan
noun
- sports player being allowed to temporarily play for a club other the one they are contracted to
- transfer of money that must be repaid
- give temporarily
verb
- transfer of money that must be repaid
- transfer of property for temporary use, with or without the payment of interest
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ləʊn/ / /loʊn/
noun
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic lòn (“marshy meadow”) (compare lèana (“wet meadow, marsh, meadow”)).
- An area of uncultivated ground near a village or farmhouse.
“the Loan of Turchloy, the Black Loan”
“[...] The herds upon the loan, As if a sheep had fled, wi' speed, At Grumphy tykes hound on Wi' loud huzza!”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English lone, lane, from Old Norse lán, from Proto-Germanic *laihną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave (over)”). Cognate with Icelandic lán, Swedish lån, Danish lån, German Lehen (“fief”), Dutch leen (“fief”), West Frisian lien, North Frisian leen (“fief; loan; office”), Scots lane, lain, len, Old English lǣn. More at lend.
- To lend (something) to (someone).
“In the course of a correspondence that passed between us at this period, he mentioned, to my utter astonishment, the fact of his having loaned Neilson 81000 to buy my bill on Maryland; and stated that he could not proceed to make the payment until Neilson refunded the money.”
“All the rest—six out of eleven, more than half—were loaned to him.”