noun / verb
loan
LOHN/ləʊn/
Something borrowed from another rather than originally one's own.
A bank clerk gives a borrower a loan to repay later.
Etymology
Old Norse lán supplies the core idea of lending. In English, the word named anything furnished on a promise of return; the money sense applies that same obligation to repayment.
In context
a hundred thirty thousand on a Parent PLUS loan I work at a IHS facility so they give me eighteen thousand a year for a loan repayment
More examples
- The painting is on loan from a private collection.
- We loan our neighbors tools when they need them.
- The English word “ballet” is a loan from French.
Forms
loan · loans · loaned · loaning
loanword noun — A word adopted from another language.