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Lender vs Loanee - What's the difference?

lender | loanee |

As nouns the difference between lender and loanee

is that lender is one who lends, especially money while loanee is borrower; someone who is loaned something.

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

    loanee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • borrower; someone who is loaned something
  • (sports) Someone who is being loaned, someone playing for another club on loan.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 18 , author=David Dulin , title=Cardiff 0 - 2 Stoke , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Then, Andy Keogh picked up the ball on the right and squared to Danny Drinkwater on the edge of the box, but the Manchester United loanee' s shot lacked power to trouble Stoke stopper Thomas Sorensen. }}