Borrowing or Loan - What's the difference?
borrowing | loan |
An instance of borrowing something.
* (Horace Binney)
(linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
(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)
As verbs the difference between borrowing and loan
is that borrowing is present participle of lang=en while loan is to lend (something) to (someone).As nouns the difference between borrowing and loan
is that borrowing is an instance of borrowing something while loan is 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).borrowing
English
Verb
(head)- She is borrowing my pen.
Noun
(en noun)- Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City
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.
