lending

[lend]

Disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned

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The act of one who lends.

Noun
disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned

p. pr. & vb. n.
of Lend

n.
The act of one who lends.

n.
That which is lent or furnished.

Lending

Lend"ing, n. 1. The act of one who lends. 2. That which is lent or furnished.

The act of one who lends.

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Usage Examples

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.