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loan
 
Noun loan has 2 senses
  1. loan - the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
    --1 is a kind of     debt
    --1 has part: principal
    --1 has particulars:
     bank loan; home loan, home equity credit, home equity loan, equity credit line; installment credit, installment loan; call loan, demand loan; direct loan; participation loan, loan participation, participation financing; personal loan, consumer loan; real estate loan, mortgage loan; time loan
    Derived form: verb loan1
  2. loanword, loan - a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
    --2 is a kind of word
    --2 has particulars: Gallicism
Verb loan has 1 sense
  1. lend, loan - give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money"
    --1 is one way to give
    Derived form: noun loan1
    Sample sentences:
    They loan cars to the tourists
    They loan the tourists their cars
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