1 [C] money that an organization such as a bank lends and sb borrows:
to take out / repay a loan (= to borrow money / pay it back) * bank loans with low interest rates * It took three years to repay my student loan (= money lent to a student). * a car loan (= a loan to buy a car)
2 [sing.] ~ (of sth) the act of lending sth; the state of being lent:
I even gave her the loan of my car. * an exhibition of paintings on loan (= borrowed) from private collections
Part of speech: verb
1 ~ sth (to sb)
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for loan is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is loan a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, loan is tagged as noun.
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