loan

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Something lent for temporary use.
2. n. A sum of money lent at interest.
3. n. An act of lending; a grant for temporary use: asked for the loan of a garden hose.
4. n. A temporary transfer to a duty or place away from a regular job: an efficiency expert on loan from the main office.
5. v. Usage Problem To lend.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A grant; gift; reward.
2. n. That which is lent; anything furnished on condition of the future return of it, or of the delivery of an equivalent in kind; especially, a sum of money lent at interest.
3. n. The act of lending or the condition of being lent; a lending: as, to arrange a loan.
4. n. [In civil law, when the loan was made of things which could be returned only by their material equivalent, it was called mutuum; when made of things which could be returned in the identical form, it was called commodatum.]
5. n. Permission to use; grant of the use: as, a loan of credit.
6. To lend.
7. To lend money or other property; make a loan.
8. n. A lane.
9. n. An open space between fields of corn, left untilled as a passage for cattle; hence, a place near a village for milking cows. Also loaning.

Wiktionary

1. n. banking, finance A sum of money or other valuables or consideration that an individual, group or other legal entity borrows from another individual, group or legal entity (the latter often being a financial institution) with the condition that it be returned or repaid at a later date (sometimes with interest).
2. n. The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
3. n. The permission to borrow any item.
4. v. US, informal To lend (something) to (someone).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Scot. A loanin.
2. n. The act of lending; a lending; permission to use.
3. n. That which one lends or borrows, especially a sum of money lent at interest.
4. v. To lend; -- sometimes with out.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
2. v. give temporarily; let have for a limited time
3. n. the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)