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Lender vs Lendee - What's the difference?

lender | lendee | Antonyms |

Lender is a antonym of lendee.



As nouns the difference between lendee and lender

is that lendee is the person to whom something is lent while lender is one who lends, especially money.

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

    lendee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The person to whom something is lent.
  • Antonyms

    * lender

    Synonyms

    * borrower

    Anagrams

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