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Noun: loan  lown
  1. The temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
    "She took out a loan to finance her new business"
     
  2. A word borrowed from another language
    "The English word 'tsunami' is a loan from Japanese";
    - loanword
Verb: loan  lown
  1. Give temporarily; let have for a limited time
    "loan me some money";
    - lend

Sounds like: loads, loloan

Derived forms: loans, loaning, loaned

Type of: debt, give, word

Encyclopedia: Loan, bank, and access card device fraud