lend

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Uncertainty about the impact of an estimated £200bn in toxic loans is blamed for banks 'reluctance to lend, which is starving businesses of cash and increasing the risk of job losses.

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  1. transitive verb To give or allow the use of temporarily on the condition that the same or its equivalent will be returned.
  2. transitive verb To provide (money) temporarily on condition that the amount borrowed be returned, usually with an interest fee.
  3. transitive verb To contribute or impart: Books and a fireplace lent a feeling of warmth to the room.

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  • We looked at it and we saw fear-mongering -- attempts to panic us into believing that the banks had no money to lend, and credit was dried up and loans were almost impossible to get -- all being peddled from the White House, the Treasury and the Fed, and all the way down to the House and Senate, Wall Street and much of the media. —  GOPUSA
  • With further cuts unlikely due to the potential impact on banks 'margins and their willingness to lend, the focus will shift to the pace of its programme of quantitative easing —  icNewcastle
  • Now that it has been established that the government can unilaterally break existing contracts (and BHO certainly thinks that's ok), what happens when that is taken to its logical extreme, and financial institutions are no longer willing to lend * anyone* money because they can't depend on being able to enforce contracts? —  BloggingStocks
  • With banks reluctant to lend, the Coalition government has agreed to establish a EUR100bn fund to provide credit guarantees for business. —  Tax-News.Com Daily Headlines
  • They still have money to lend, and they have people you can talk to. —  centralpennbusiness.com Daily
 

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borrow ·  lender ·  mortgage ·  investment ·  operate ·  finance ·  brokerage ·  spend ·  equity ·  subprime ·  holding ·  foreclosure

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lend:   lending ·  Lent ·  lent ·  lends
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  1. Middle English lenden, alteration of lenen (on the model of such verbs as senden, to send, whose past participle sent rhymed with lent, past participle of lenen), from Old English lǣnan; see leikw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. With excrescent -d, as also in sound, round, etc.; properly lene, or as dial. len, from Middle English lenen, leenen (preterit lende, past participle lened, lend, lent, ilenet, ylent), from Anglo-Saxon lǣnan (= OFries. lena, lenia = Dutch leenen = Middle Low German lēnen, lēhenen, leinen = Old High German lēhanōn, Middle High German lēhenen, German lehnen = Icelandic lāna = Danish laane = Swedish låna, lend, make a loan), from lān, lǣn, a loan: see loan.
  2. from lend, v.
  3. Middle English lenden, from Anglo-Saxon lendan, land: see land, v.
 

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