loan

Speech parts

1. loan - Noun

2. loan - Verb

Meaning

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.

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Let 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

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