lending
- noun
- /ˈlɛndɪŋ/
- Standards of lending were progressively tightened, so that credit became scarcer and more expensive.
- bank lending
- lending institutions
- international lending
And scenario three, lending money to family?
- And scenario three, lending money to family?
- For one, sending samples out is a little bit like lending money to family.
- I know guys whose Iras make a living lending.
- They profile his, his payday lending business.
- And the cause of debt deflation is too much lending, too much bank lending, too much private money creation.
- In the case of Chinese lending markets, moral hazard underpins everything.
- It's like, why should the like I, I like to think about lending decisions and just common sense terms.
- What it what a bank lending does is it goes up and up and up is.
Examples
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Bank of America has made more money lending people money to buy a house.
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Overnight, the banks just stopped lending and I thought, have they done something wrong?
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Yet at the same time, look, lending activity picked up further.
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Amazon has their lending program for Prime members.
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I'm not in the lending business.
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By far, attention has focused most on the World Bank, which is reforming its lending programs.
Academic text (1994) -
As uncertainty has grown, many banks have restricted lending... credit markets have frozen... and families and businesses have found it harder to borrow money.
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The G-7 called for private creditors to continue lending to emerging markets during economic stress.
Academic text (1999) -
Just as generous credit stimulated growth, tighter lending standards are restraining it.
Academic text (2008) -
The act of lending large sums of money to individuals or businesses can significantly impact the economy.
Synonyms
Giving money or things to someone and expecting them to pay it back, often with interest
Business of giving money to people and charging interest
Compounds
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A bank or company that gives money to people and businesses to pay back
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word lending comes from the old verb lend, which meant 'to allow someone to use something for a time' and is closely related to the common word loan. So, lending means giving money or something now with the idea that it will be returned later.