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lend English

Meaning lend meaning

What does lend mean?
Definitions in simple English

lend Verb

— When you lend something to another person, you let them use it, after which they must return it to you. I lent my textbook to Jack to allow him to study from it. The main functions of banks are to hold your money safely and to lend some of that money to others. — If mathx/math lends mathy/math support, believability, acceptance, etc., mathx/math gives it to mathy/math. Several studies in recent years have lent support to this idea. — If you lend a hand, you help. We're moving house next week and we were hoping you could lend us a hand.

lend

— verb (= bestow, add, bring) bestow a quality on Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company The music added a lot to the play She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings This adds a light note to the program — verb (= loan) give temporarily; let have for a limited time I will lend you my car loan me some money — verb have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to This story would lend itself well to serialization on television The current system lends itself to great abuse

Synonyms lend synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as lend?

lend English » English

borrow loan give advance impart bestow render give a loan contribute bring add accommodate yield pay loaning let donate borrowed money afford administer accommodation wear trust total take out sit run rest reside request represent repose regale quote put out provide present pray place pass on olla offer number make up make a present make lie lend money lay indue

Topics lend topics

What do people use lend to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance Borrow

Lend
Physical actions Arrange Join, attach

Add to something

  • What words refer to adding a quality to something?
    give lend
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Listen
Social behavior Behavior Do good to

Help
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

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Conjugation lend conjugation

How do you conjugate lend?

lend · verb

Examples lend examples

How do I use lend in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Will you lend me your knife?
Can you lend me some money?
I do not have the courage to ask my boss to lend me his car.
Will you lend me your bicycle?
If you need a dictionary, I'll lend you an old one that I have.
I will lend you a pen.
Could you lend me your pink pen, please?
If you don't have enough money, I'll lend you some.
Would you please lend me a pen?
I left my wallet at home. Could you lend me some money?
Tom doesn't want to lend anything to anybody.
I can lend you my dictionary.
Please lend me your car.
Will you lend me your dictionary?
Could you lend me your bicycle for a couple of days?
I'll lend it to you.
I'll lend you my notebook.
I'll lend you this book.
I will lend you whatever book you need.
Banks will try to lend you an umbrella on a sunny day, but they will turn their backs on a rainy day.
Lend your money and lose your friend.
I need a bag. Will you lend me one?
Lend me something with which to cut this.
Will you lend me your bicycle for an hour?
If you have any interesting books, lend me some.
Didn't I lend you some books? I'm sure I did.
Can you lend me 10,000 yen?

Movie subtitles

Lend us your strength, Toudou!
Will you lend me your strength so that others can get by without losing their loved ones?
You mean lend?
I WILL LEND THE MONEY ON CONDITION THAT HIS EXCELLENCY WITHDRAW. AND PLACE THE GOVERNMENT IN NEW HANDS.
I WILL LEND THE MONEY ONLY IF FIREFLY IS APPOINTED LEADER.
Maybe I could lend the young lady a nightgown.
Lend a hand with that cart.
Lend me your car, please?
If you could lend me some?.
Will you lend me the money?
If you are my friend, why won't you lend me the money anyway?
Lend a hand here, Olley!
She'd lend you the money.
Chris, you might lend me your gun after lunch. I want it for myself, old boy.
She lend it to me, but she don't know it.
I've got money I can lend you.
I will lend the money, but only if His Excellency withdraws.
I'll lend the money to Freedonia, only if Firefly is appointed leader!
Here, Kent, lend him your horse.
Since the Spaniards have been thoughtless enough to sink our craft. I'll see if I can't persuade them to lend us one of theirs.
Lend a hand forward, Andy.
I've got to go there. Lend me your car, please?
Would you perhaps be able to lend me a little something?
Can you lend me a little?
Will you lend me an egg and some wood, neighbour?
And I wonder if you could lend me some to get home on.
But I think you'll lend it to me.
I think you'll lend me the money now, won't you, Mr. Kirkwood?
Just lend it to me.
Baron, I cannot lend my scientific integrity to a swindle.
I can lend you the difference, I have a stash.
When you play the hero of Konjiki, I'll lend you my cap.
Maybe I could lend the young lady a nightgown. Will you please to register?
Will you lend me 30 yen?

News and current affairs

One hopes that this will lend comfort to him, and give a moral boost to Chinese who share his views.
If Europe - particularly the European Central Bank - were to borrow, and re-lend the proceeds, the costs of servicing Europe's debt would fall, creating room for the kinds of expenditure that would promote growth and employment.
Their consequent reluctance to lend constrains investment.
The problem is that China has already done a lot to stimulate domestic demand, both through government spending and by directing its banks to lend.
Mounting debt also leaves the US vulnerable to the decisions of those who lend it money - or to the vagaries of the market.
On top of all this, there is a shadow financial system of non-bank financial institutions that, like banks, borrow short and liquid and lend to or invest in longer-term and illiquid assets.
Nevertheless, it does represent a clear commitment by the EU to lend its political and economic support to their transition and reform - a process that should bring prosperity and stability to the whole region.
Experts may say that short-run supply factors caused the recent price increases, but the price increases will nonetheless lend credibility to scarier long-term stories.
For a while this created a seemingly more stable banking system, but that system failed to lend to small and medium sized firms.
Growth requires financial institutions that lend to domestic firms.
At the most simplistic level: in a world with perfect information, bankruptcy would not exist - why, indeed, would anyone lend to someone who they knew would not repay them?
Rich countries should therefore lend their allocations to the countries in need.
The next challenge will be to push for a restoration of bank capital, so that commercial banks can once again lend for longer-term investments.
This allows state-controlled banks to lend at subsidized interest rates to favored firms and sectors.
With home prices falling (and set to continue to fall), and with banks uncertain of their financial position, lenders will not lend and households will not borrow.
Only under such conditions will difficult problems lend themselves to solution.
Special European facilities, along with the IMF, lend money at below-market interest rates, which reduces the extent of austerity required.
Financial markets were eager to lend to these households, in part because the credit markets were deregulated, which served as an invitation to reckless lending.
The risk would be minimized by not raising the amount the central banks are willing to lend in line with the rise in market prices.
More ominously, the willingness of foreign central banks to lend to the US also looks likely to end.

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