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lend | debt |

As nouns the difference between lend and debt

is that lend is the lumbar region; loin while debt is an action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.

As a verb lend

is to allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be ed.

lend

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lende (usually in plural as lendes, leendes, lyndes), from (etyl) lendenu, .

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland) * (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The lumbar region; loin.
  • The loins; flank; buttocks.

    • Etymology 2

    From earlier len (with excrescent -d'', as in . See also (l).

    Verb

  • To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be ed.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend .}}
  • To make a loan.
  • (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
  • To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
    • Can you lend me some assistance?
    The famous director lent his name to the new film.
  • * Addison
    • Cato, lend me for a while thy patience.
  • * J. A. Symonds
    • Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions.
  • (proscribed) To borrow.
    • Antonyms
    * borrow
    Derived terms
    * lend to believe * have a lend
    See also
    * give back * lender * loan * pay back

    References

    * * English irregular verbs 1000 English basic words ----

    debt

    English

    (wikipedia debt)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
  • * 1589 , (William Shakespeare), Henry IV, Part I , act 1, sc. 3,
    • Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt
    Of this proud king, who studies day and night
    To answer all the debt he owes to you
    Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
  • * 1850 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne), (The Scarlet Letter) , ch. 14,
    • This long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.
  • The state or condition of owing something to another.
  • Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
  • * 1919 , (Upton Sinclair), Jimmie Higgins , ch. 15,
    • Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
  • (legal) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
    • (Burrill)

    Derived terms

    * bad debt * debt exchange * debt-equity ratio * debt-laden * debt of honor * domestic debt * external debt * foreign debt * in debt * national debt * technical debt

    Related terms

    * debit * debitor * debtor * indebted

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