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lended | lender |

As a verb lended

is past tense of lend.

As a noun lender is

one who lends, especially money.

lended

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nonstandard) (lend)

    • 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 ----

    lender

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who lends, especially money.
  • * Shakespeare , Hamlet, circa 1602, Act 1 scene 3, Polonius speaks [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/2ws2610.txt]
    • "Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
    For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
    And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."
  • *{{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.}}

    Antonyms

    * borrower

    See also

    * creditor * debtor