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Loan
01
a sum of money that is borrowed from a bank which should be returned with a certain rate of interest
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
loans
Examples
She took out a loan to buy her first home, which she plans to repay over 30 years.
02
a word or expression adopted from another language and incorporated into the borrowing language
Examples
" Kindergarten " is a loan from German.
to loan
01
to give someone something, such as an amount of money, with the understanding that it will be returned
Ditransitive: to loan sb sth
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
loan
3rd person singular
loans
Present participle
loaning
Past simple
loaned
Past participle
loaned
Examples
The bank agreed to loan her the funds for purchasing a new car.
