Word a Day
loan
What does loan mean?
loan (noun): the temporary provision of money (usually at interest).
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use loan in a sentence?
- He made a payment on his loan. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce loan?
/loʊn/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
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What does “loan” mean?
true facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality
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work done by one person or group that benefits another
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act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
Not quite: that's what development means.
the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
Right! That's what “loan” means.
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