Loan vs Loa - What's the difference?
loan | loa |
(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)
In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 714:
As verbs the difference between loan and loa
is that loan is to lend (something) to (someone) while loa is .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.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
* ----loa
English
(wikipedia loa)Noun
(en-noun)- Equally surprising is to find St Patrick so prominent in many Vodou shrines, until one remembers that he too had been a slave who had twice crossed the sea, the second time to freedom, and that he had particular power over snakes, like the loa'' (Haitian equivalent of ''orisha ) Dambala Wèdo.