loan

Universal Words noun, verb noun 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 verb 1 ~ sth (to sb)