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plural loans
(law, banking, finance) An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use. examples
(law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest). quotations examples
That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp
The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan. examples
The permission to borrow any item. examples
third-person singular simple present loans, present participle loaning, simple past and past participle loaned
(usually ditransitive, US, dated and occasionally proscribed in UK, informal) To lend (something) to (someone). quotations examples
In the course of a correspondence that passed between us at this period, he mentioned, to my utter astonishment, the fact of his having loaned Neilson 81000 to buy my bill on Maryland; and stated that he could not proceed to make the payment until Neilson refunded the money.
1820 June 1, William King, Letters to James Monroe: President of the United States, from William King
All the rest—six out of eleven, more than half—were loaned to him.
1992, Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, page 30
Upon maturity of the debt, the investment bank returns the loaned shares.On the date of issuance, the entity should record the loaned shares at their fair value and recognize them as an issuance cost, with an offset to additional paid-in capital.
2015, Joanne M. Flood, Wiley GAAP 2015: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, page 574
(Scotland) A lonnen. examples