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noun

Loan n. A loanin. (Scot.)

Loan n.

The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.

That which one lends or borrows, especially a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.

Loan office.

(a)

An office at which loans are negotiated, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender.

(b)

A pawnbroker's shop.

verb

Loan v. t. (past & past part. loaned; pres. part. loaning) To lend; sometimes with out. "By way of location or loaning them out."

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... company. There is a tendency in both to pour if they rain, and that day John had another large remittance from a Manchester house and the second mail brought him a letter which was as great a surprise as his mother's loan. It was from Lord Harlow and ...

— The Measure of a Man • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... section which seemed to have been intended for precisely such cases as ours. It provided "That any person or persons who shall hereafter be convicted of giving a pass to any slave, or person held to service, or shall be found to assist, by advice, donation or loan, or otherwise, the transporting of any slave or any person held to service, from this state, or by any other unlawful means depriving a master or owner of the service of his slave or person held to service, for every such offence the party aggrieved shall recover damages in an action on the case, ...

— Personal Memoir Of Daniel Drayton - For Four Years And Four Months A Prisoner (For Charity's Sake) In Washington Jail • Daniel Drayton

... attended with considerable risk, the system of partnership was so extensively adopted, that it practically took the place of insurances, which were unknown to antiquity. Nothing was more common than the nautical loan, as it was called—the modern "bottomry"—by which the risk and gain of transmarine traffic were proportionally distributed among the owners of the vessel and cargo and all the capitalists advancing money for the voyage. ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... into their hand. The Great War Loan of $3,000,000,000 had just been authorised. "Why not make this loan the text of a great National thrift lesson and give every working man and woman a chance to become a financial partner of the Empire," ...

— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson

... arranging the matter, for the volume, I am deeply indebted first to the living contributors who were so gracious and generous in their responses to the request for their help, and to the relatives of those who have passed into silence, for the loan of valuable books and manuscripts. I cannot adequately express my gratitude to Mr. John E. Bruce and Mr. Arthur A. Schomburg, President and Secretary of the Negro Society for Historical Research, for advice, suggestion, ...

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