Lending

Definition: Lending

Lending

Noun

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

Date "lending" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Lending

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream that you are lending money, foretells difficulties in meeting payments of debts and unpleasant influence in private. To lend other articles, denotes impoverishment through generosity. To refuse to lend things, you will be awake to your interests and keep the respect of friends. For others to offer to lend you articles, or money, denotes prosperity and close friendships. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Lending

Synonym: loaning (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Lending

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Lending	Noun: lending; Verb: loan, advance, accommodation, feneration; mortgage, second mortgage, home loan; (security); investment; note, bond, commercial paper.
	Adjective: lending; Verb: lent; Verb: unborrowed; (see borrowed; ).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Lending

English words defined with "lending": agent bank ♦ bank, banking company, banking concern ♦ depository financial institution, direct loan, draw a line, draw the line ♦ gap ♦ lead bank, lendable, lending institution, lending library, Loanable, Lombar-house ♦ paintable ♦ Reloan ♦ spread ♦ usury. (references)

Specialty definitions using "lending": affirmative lending, Agricultural Credit Act of 1987, Agricultural Credit Association, annual percentage rate ♦ Back, Bank for Cooperatives ♦ Community Investment Program, concerted financing,lending, concerted lending deal, Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961, cost of funds index, Credit Standards Advisory Committee ♦ Danism, direct investment, domestic credit expansion ♦ Facility report, fair lending practices regulations, Farm Credit Act of 1971, Farm Credit Banks, Farm Credit System, Farm loan programs of the FSA, Farmer Mac, Federal Land Bank Associations ♦ Goggles ♦ Home Energy Rating Systems ♦ investment aggregate P1, involuntary lending ♦ lag risk, Lending, lending agency, lending policy, Loan fee, loan origination, loan origination fee, loan proceeds, loan processing, LOAN REVIEW ANALYST ♦ maturity intermediation, MORTGAGE LOAN CLOSER ♦ nationwide loan, nonoperating income ♦ operating expenses ♦ predatory lending, Production Credit Association ♦ rate intermediation, refinancing, relatively less developed, right of foreclosure ♦ savings account loan ♦ TITLE SEARCHER, toy library ♦ Veterans Administration. (references)

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Modern Usage: Lending

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I want to thank you for lending me the Donger tonight. (Sixteen Candles; writing credit: John Hughes)

Well maybe the world's lending libraries will band together and hire an assassin! (Death on the Nile; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer)

Hey, hey, this is not a lending library. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Thanks for lending me your tux dad. And it will be perfect for my wedding. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Lending

Domain	Title
Books	California Mortgage Loan Brokering and Lending (reference) Consumer Lending (reference) Mainstreaming Microfinance: How Lending to the Poor Began, Grew, and Came of Age in Bolivia (reference) Problems of Financial Analysis in Institutional Lending Operations: Some Lessons from Tanzania (reference) Securities Lending and Repurchase Agreements (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Commercial Lending Review (reference) Consumer Credit & Truth In Lending Compliance (reference) Consumer Lending News (reference) Home Equity Lending Study (reference) Journal Of Agricultural Lending (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Lending

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Air Force members have become the targets of money lending scams out of Canada. The scams, in the form of classified advertisements in military newspapers advertised guaranteed loans, regardless of income or credit history, and charge a significant up-fro.		Our banks are lending the Allies money now, but they are requiring that the money be spent here.Credit: Library of Congress.
	We are just lending this to you, Winnie, you can return it later.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Lending

Author	Quotation
Doris Lessing	Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
John Ruskin	People cannot live by lending money to one another.
	Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Lending

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Time lending his aid, every point is blunted.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lending

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Weakness and ataxia (incoordination) are also characteristic of MS. When weakness is a problem, some spasticity can actually be beneficial by lending support to weak limbs. (references)
Business		China considers multilateral lending programs very important sources. (references)
		Even so, the banks lack sufficient lending opportunities for their funds, and consequently place many of them abroad. (references)
		The Central Bank also prohibits lending an amount greater than seven percent of a bank's capital base to any single customer. (references)
Economic History	Poland	Banks set their own lending and deposit rates. (references)
	Mexico	Commercial bank lending has continued to decline. (references)
	Ghana	However, Exim private sector lending remains possible. (references)
Political Economy	REPUBLIC OF KOREA	Foreign banks are also disadvantaged in access to local-currency lending. (references)
	ALGERIA	The Bank of Algeria controls monetary growth primarily via bank lending limits. (references)
	RUSSIA	State banks increasingly are crowding out private banks for commercial lending. (references)
Trade	Hong Kong	ADB's total lending in 2000 reached $5.9 billion. (references)
	Kenya	Lending against inventory is not considered by banks. (references)
	Cote D'ivoire	The current lending rate ranges from 15 to 17 percent. (references)
Travel	Thailand	A good range of commercial banking services is available in Thailand for both business and retail customers . Deposit accounts, lending facilities, foreign exchange, import/export facilities and other products and services such as credit cards, debit cards and automatic teller machines (ATM) are offered . Foreign banks have joined the local ATM network, thus enabling their customers to use their overseas bank ATM card at any ATM within the domestic network . There are approximately 5,000 ATM's in Thailand, with older machines being replaced by newer ones . Some limitations, such as on mortgage lending to foreigners, do exist, reflecting restrictions on foreign ownership of property. (references)
Women	Cote d'Ivoire	Some women also encounter difficulty in obtaining loans, as they cannot meet the lending criteria mandated by banks. (references)
	Venezuela	The first is the "Women's Bank," a lending institution inaugurated by President Chavez on September 13 that is designed to provide small-scale financing to micro-enterprises run by women. (references)
Worker Rights	Sao Tome and Principe	However, corruption was widespread, and international lending institutions have criticized the Government for ineffective administration of these subsidies. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Lending

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	The World Bank's new structural adjustment lending program will also make an important contribution to international efforts to help countries achieve a sustainable level of growth and development.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	We look forward to rewarding teachers who are not only lending their hearts, but their talents, to make sure no child gets left behind.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Lending

"Lending" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.93% of the time. "Lending" is used about 637 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	66.93%	427	13,408
Noun (singular)	24.61%	157	25,059
Adjective (general or positive)	6.11%	39	55,036
Noun (proper)	2.35%	15	90,616
Total	100.00%	637	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Lending

Expressions using "lending": concerted lending deal ♦ involuntary lending ♦ lending agency ♦ lending bank ♦ lending business ♦ lending charge ♦ lending country ♦ lending institution ♦ lending library ♦ lending money at interest ♦ lending policy ♦ lending rate ♦ lending rights ♦ minimum lending rate ♦ predatory lending ♦ prime lending rate. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "lending": lending-library.
	Ending with "lending": money-lending.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lending

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
lending tree	4,269	lending mit	49
homeside lending	1,086	countrywide lending	48
lending	398	securities lending	44
prime lending rate	308	aegis lending	41
asset based lending	290	money tree lending	40
commercial lending	216	church lending	38
lending institution	202	debt consolidation lending	36
world lending group	180	lending rate	35
guaranty residential lending	164	online lending	34
pioneer military lending	149	pioneer lending	34
mortgage lending	145	law lending mortgage nc	33
full spectrum lending	135	community lending	33
predatory lending	111	lending tree mortgage	33
lending company	93	correspondent lending	32
home lending	88	direct lending	31
truth in lending	80	nationwide lending	29
truth in lending act	70	money lending	29
homeside lending inc	56	homeside lending mortgage	28
lending pavilion universal	55	wholesale lending	28
prime lending	49	universal lending	28
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lending

Language		Translations for "lending"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		贷给 (lend, Lends, Lent). (various references)

Danish		fællesfinansieret lånepakke (concerted financing, concerted lending deal). (various references)

Dutch		consortium-financiering (concerted financing, concerted lending deal). (various references)

Finnish		järjestetty rahoitus (concerted financing, concerted lending deal). (various references)

French		prêt. (various references)

German		leihend (loaning), leihe (hiring, lend, loan, pawning, pawnshop), ausleihend. (various references)

Greek		χρηματοδότηση από ομάδα τραπεζών (concerted financing, concerted lending deal), δανεισμόσ (borrowing). (various references)

Hebrew		�"שאל�" (metaphor). (various references)

Hungarian		kölcsönzés (loan, loaning), kölcsönadás (loan). (various references)

Italian		prestito (advance, borrow, borrow area, borrow pit, borrowing, lend, loan, loan credit, loan word). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		融通 (accommodation, adaptability, finance, versatility), 貸し出し (loaning), 貸出し (loaning), 貸与 (loan), 貸し (loan). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たいよ (loan), かし� し (loaning), かし (apparent death, asphyxiation, being granted, blemish, defect, evergreen oak, Fahrenheit, false tooth, filament, fish market, flaw, granting, imperial grant, loan, lower extremities, noncommissioned officer, pastry, river bank, riverside, song lyrics, the legs, visibility, words of a song), ゆうずう (accommodation, adaptability, energetically going forward, finance, spirited advance, versatility), ゆうづう (accommodation, adaptability, finance, versatility). (various references)

Korean		빌� �줌 (loaning). (various references)

Manx		yeeassee, yeeasaght (issue, issue of loan, loan), eeassee, eeasaght (advance, borrowing, loan, loan-word). (various references)

Pig Latin		endinglay

Portuguese		emprestador. (various references)

Romanian		împrumut (accommodation, loan, loan word). (various references)

Russian		предоставлять кредит/ кредитование. (various references)

Spanish		préstamo (accommodation, advance, borrow, borrow area, borrow pit, borrowing, loan, loan credit, overdraft), financiamiento concertado (concerted financing, concerted lending deal), de préstamo (loan). (various references)

Swedish		parallell finansiering (concerted financing, concerted lending deal), belåning (raising a loan). (various references)

Turkish		borç verme, ödünç verme (lend, loan). (various references)

Ukranian		видача (delivery, issuance, yielding), позичання (borrow, borrowing). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự cho vay, sự cho mượn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lending

Derivations
	Words ending with "lending": blending, interlending, overlending, reblending, relending. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lending" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jending, kending, kleding, Landini, Leddin, leding, lencing, lening, lennin, Lenzing, Llandanwg, londini, Lundin, lunting, Xlendi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Lending"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lending" (pronounced le"nding)
6	l e" n d i ng	blending, relending.
5	-e" n d i ng	amending, apprehending, ascending, attending, bending, commending, comprehending, condescending, contending, defending, depending, descending, ending, expending, extending, fending, impending, intending, mending, misspending, offending, overextending, pending, portending, pretending, recommending, rending, sending, spending, suspending, tending, transcending, trending, unbending, unending, vending, wending.
4	-n d i ng	abounding, astounding, banding, binding, blinding, bonding, bounding, branding, commanding, compounding, confounding, corresponding, defunding, demanding, disbanding, expanding, expounding, finding, founding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, handing, hounding, landing, longstanding, masterminding, minding, misunderstanding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, outspending, outstanding, overfunding, overspending, pounding, rebounding, refunding, reminding, rescinding, resounding, responding, rounding, sanding, sounding, spellbinding, standing, stranding, surrounding, underfunding, understanding, unwinding, upstanding, winding, withstanding, wounding.
3	-d i ng	abiding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, applauding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Lending

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-l-n-n"
	-1 letter: dingle, ending, engild, ginned, linden.
	-2 letters: deign, dinge, gelid, glide, ingle, inned, lined, linen.
	-3 letters: deil, deli, deni, diel, dine, ding, geld, gied, gien, gild, gled, glen, idle, lend, lied, lien, line, ling, linn, nide, nine.
	-4 letters: del, den, die, dig, din, eld, end, eng, ged, gel, gen, gid, gie, gin, inn, led, leg.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-l-n-n"
	+1 letter: blending, ladening, needling.
	+2 letters: declining, denyingly, deplaning, enfolding, engilding, indulgent, loudening, mildening, needlings, redlining, relending, unaligned, underling, unleading, unmingled.
	+3 letters: blundering, datelining, enduringly, enfilading, engirdling, enkindling, gladdening, handseling, headlining, indulgence, indwelling, laundering, nonaligned, plundering, reblending, rehandling, rekindling, sanderling, sidelining, slandering, underlings, underlying, unendingly, unyielding.
	+4 letters: bludgeoning, calendaring, calendering, chandelling, cylindering, darlingness, deadeningly, deafeningly, delineating, demandingly, disentangle, emboldening, endearingly, enlightened, floundering, goaltending, handselling, imboldening, indulgences, indulgently, ingrainedly, languidness, lavendering, lightninged, maddeningly, overlending, sanderlings, underlaying, underlining, unfeignedly, ungodliness, unsoldering, vilipending.
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