loan
noun
uk
/ləʊn/ us
/loʊn/loan noun (SUM)
B1 [ C ]
take out a loan She had to take out a short-term loan to cover the costs.
Meaning of loan in English
(Definition of loan from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
loan | American Dictionary
loan | Business English
a loan to sb/sth The bank's portfolio of loans to commercial and industrial firms shrank from $15.7 billion the previous year to $12.7 billion.
get/take out/apply for a loan Before you take out a loan sit down and list all the money you have coming in.
pay off/pay back/repay a loan New restrictions require lenders to check a person's income and ability to repay the loan.
provide/give/make a loan World banks injected as much as $64 billion into global money markets to encourage banks to make loans again.
a low-interest/fixed-rate/interest-only loan
See also
Examples of loan
loan
A huge part of national revenue was always spent paying interest on previous loans.
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The move away from project loans and towards structural adjustment loans in the 1980s does not diminish the main thrust of this argument.
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Although bank loans are a vitally important source of financethis is not to the complete exclusion of equity issues.
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Patrons attach clients to themselves by extending loans to the latter in times of crisis.
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As is to be expected such loans are liquid and generate income.
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Most loans for financing international trade and investmentetc.are made by individual banks to their customers without the assistance of other banks.
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In most cases this involves the provision of bank loans.
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Even the bank manager takes participation in the project into account when considering loans to co-operatives.
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Routines are also in operation for other grammatical categoriessuch as genderand frequently one gender class becomes the unmarked option for loans.
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Adapted loans will also fit into the phonotactic patterns and follow the phonological processes of the recipient language.
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Howeverthe semi-speakers use predominantly suffixationwhich is now the only productive strategy with loans or new analogical forms.
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Could a policy of demand managementinvolving deficit spending out of loanshave achieved full employment in the 1930s?
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In conclusionthere seems to be more agreement on length in trisyllabic loanswhich most assumed to have been shortalthough for different reasons.
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Since 1995some areas have changed the grants to loans in order to encourage more efficient use of the funds.
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A zero nominal interest rate on discount window loans is optimal in this setting for two reasons.
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Collocations with loan
loan
These are words often used in combination with loan.
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auto loan
The same scheme refers to an auto loan.
car loan
After repaying the car loanthe dad may not have much money to pay towards the children's upkeepbut the family has pooled its resources.
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construction loan
Finance was in essence a two-stage processcaptured in modern parlance by the terms: 'short-term construction loan'and then 'permanent financing' as with a long-term mortgage.
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