1. loan - Noun
2. loan - Verb
A loanin.
The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.
To lend; -- sometimes with out.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLet your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. Samuel Rutherford
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy. Stephen Colbert
Just because a loan is old, that does not make it a gift. Hungarian Proverb
It's better than the loan you couldn't get. Irish Proverb
To loan is to buy troubles. Hindi Proverb