Loan vs Alone - What's the difference?
loan | alone |
(banking, finance) A sum of money or other valuables or consideration that an individual, group or other legal entity borrows from another individual, group or legal entity (the latter often being a financial institution) with the condition that it be returned or repaid at a later date (sometimes with interest).
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, chapter=2 The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
The permission to borrow any item.
To lend (something) to (someone).
* 2006: — (unidentified episode, but frequently heard from her as a verb)
By oneself, solitary.
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*(Bible), (w) ii. 18
*:It is not good that the man should be alone .
*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
*:Alone on a wide, wide sea.
Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
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*(Richard Bentley) (1662-1742)
*:God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
Considered separately.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone , without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
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Without equal.
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, title= (lb) Unique; rare; matchless.
:(Shakespeare)
By one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
Without outside help.
Exclusively.
As a noun loan
is (banking|finance) a sum of money or other valuables or consideration that an individual, group or other legal entity borrows from another individual, group or legal entity (the latter often being a financial institution) with the condition that it be returned or repaid at a later date (sometimes with interest) or loan can be (scotland) a lonnen.As a verb loan
is to lend (something) to (someone).As an adjective alone is
by oneself, solitary.As an adverb alone is
by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.loan
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lone, lane, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans . Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}
Hypernyms
* (something that a legal entity borrows) bailmentHyponyms
* (something that a legal entity borrows) mutuumDerived terms
* bridge loan * caveat loan * loan shark * low-doc loan * swing loanVerb
(en verb)- When you loan somebody something, they have the responsibility to safeguard it.
Usage notes
* This usage, once widespread in the UK, is now confined to the US (or perhaps parts thereof). * It is often considered preferable to use lend when the object being loaned or lent is something other than money.Etymology 2
See lawn.Anagrams
* ----alone
English
(wikipedia alone)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=In America alone , people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
Ian Traynor
Rise of Europe's new autocrats, passage=Hungary's leader is not alone in eastern and southern Europe, where democratically elected populist strongmen increasingly dominate, deploying the power of the state and a battery of instruments of intimidation to crush dissent, demonise opposition, tame the media and tailor the system to their ends.}}