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loan(1) (iou)



loan noun1. ME.

A gift or grant from a superior. ME-L15.
A thing that is lent; esp. a sum of money lent to an individual, organization, etc., often at interest. ME.
J. Wilcox She was in the middle of discussing a loan with a client at the bank. J. N. Isbister He remained very poor, dependent..upon loans made to him by his wealthier friends.
b. A word, custom, etc., adopted by one people from another. M18.
a. The action or an act of lending; the state of being lent. Freq. in on loan, acquired or given as a loan. ME.
J. Adams I am much obliged to you..for the loan of this precious collection of memorials.
b. The action of hiring or letting. E17-L18.
a. A contribution of money, formerly often a forced one, from a private individual or public body towards the expenses of the State, the amount of which is acknowledged by the Government as a debt; a sum of money so contributed. LME.
b. An arrangement by which a Government receives advances of money on specified conditions, esp. the payment of stipulated interest. M18.
Phrases: savings and loan: see SAVING noun 3. soft loan: see SOFT adjective. subordinated loan: see SUBORDINATE verb 2.
Comb.: loan-bank an establishment from which poor people could borrow money at low interest; loan-blend a compound word consisting of both native and foreign elements; loan capital the part of the capital of a company etc. that has to be repaid, usu. at a stipulated rate of interest, irrespective of profits; loan-collection a collection of works of art, curiosities, etc., lent by their owners for exhibition; loan-farm S. Afr. a piece of land loaned to a farmer by the Government; loanholder a person who holds debentures or other acknowledgements of a loan; a mortgagee; loan-money (a) money payable as a contribution to a government loan; (b) money advanced as a loan; loan-monger derog. a person who negotiates loans; loan-office (chiefly US) (a) an office for lending money to private borrowers; (b) an office for receiving subscriptions to a government loan; loan-place S. Afr. = loan-farm above; loan shark colloq. a person who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest; loan-sharking colloq. the lending of money at exorbitant rates of interest; loan-shift a change in the meaning of a word resulting from the influence of a foreign language; a word so affected; loan-translation an expression adopted by one language from another in more or less literally translated form, a calque; loanword a word adopted or borrowed, usu. with little modification, from another language.