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loaning

loaning

1 2.8
Giving money or things to someone and expecting them to pay it back, often with interest
  • noun
  • /ˈloʊnɪŋ/
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  • However, there are many publishers and independent KDP authors who did not understand loaning and lending on Amazon's Kindle platform.

Subpoenas we have to provide all loans that are from this person.

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Examples

  • A mutual help line for progressive organizations to cooperate in such areas as technical assistance, access to useful contacts and pressure points, running campaigns, loaning equipment, providing space, and so forth.

    Academic text (2000)
  • The actual book loaning process is handled by Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble, not by Lendink.

    Blog text (22)
  • Thanks for the loaning of the quarter.

  • There was also a difference between "lending" and "loaning."

    Blog text (23)
  • Loaning is in both categories, depending on the terms of the loan.

    Blog text (13)
  • Indeed, diaries and early letters reveal an almost constant activity of borrowing and loaning within the community.

    Academic text (1992)
  • His billhead said, "No Banking, no Mortgaging, no Insurance, no Borrowing, no Loaning."

    Fiction book (1990)
  • The bank offers a variety of services, including loaning money for home purchases.

  • His business relies on loaning equipment to startups in need of financial support.

  • She was grateful for the loaning of the funds needed to start her new venture.

Synonyms

lending
vsloaning
94 1.8

Giving money to someone for a time and expecting it back with extra money added

is the same action but named with a different common term
moneylending
vsloaning
3.5

Business of giving money to people and charging interest

is the general act of giving money, not necessarily a business

Antonyms

60 2.3

Getting money from a person or bank that you must pay back with interest

Surface Forms

loaning singular
loanings plural

Morphology

loaning = loan (transparent) = loan + ing

Standard nominalization/gerund of the verb 'loan' meaning the act or process of lending.

Etymology

Loaning comes from the old English word loan, which meant 'something given for a time', and it is the same idea as the verb lend. So loaning means giving money or things now with the idea they will be given back, often with extra money as a payment.