(v. t.) To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.
(v. t.) To allow the possession and use of, on condition of the return of an equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of food.
(v. t.) To afford; to grant or furnish in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend one's name or influence.
(v. t.) To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross mortgage lending stood at £7.9bn in April compared with £8.7bn in March and a six-month average of £9.9bn.
(2) It has also been given to Sir Andrew Large, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose report on lending failures by RBS will also be released on Monday.
(3) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(4) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(5) Unsecured lending rose slightly during the month, with outstanding debt increasing by £331m, after contracting by £114m in April.
(6) Finally, because of its logicomathematical foundation, the systemal approach lends itself readily to application of computer techniques.
(7) Even so, the FLS has been slow to increase lending to small businesses.
(8) These findings lend new support to the assumption of the bifunctional property of IGFBP-3, which would have an effect outside the cell (binding of IGF in the medium) and another effect within cells or on the surface.
(9) This study lends further support to the hypothesis that the putative role of the red-cell metabolic injury in the origin of haemolysis in ZS cannot be envisaged without introducing membrane-linked and extracellular cofactors.
(10) These results emphasize the potential importance of LPL-mediated lipid assimilation in the metabolic events that lead to energy production in response to environmental stresses and lend support to the notion that the regulation of LPL activity is tissue specific.
(11) The CML said the value of lending for house purchases was up by 8% year on year in May, at £9.4bn, while the number of loans grew by 5% to 53,800.
(12) Our results indicate that lead compounds may be genotoxic by an indirect mechanism, and lend support to the view that lead is a carcinogen.
(13) By virtue of the technique, minimal incision surgery lends itself to a greater risk of causing epidermal inclusion cysts.
(14) If a bank does not meet the commitment, its chief executive and senior managers responsible for business lending will not receive the maximum pay and bonus as a result."
(15) Combined with the evidence of genetic and psychometric studies, our results lend further support to the hypothesis that left hemisphere functioning in schizophrenia is impaired.
(16) A new website aims to help people reconnect with their neighbours through a lending and borrowing scheme.
(17) These results lend support to the assumption that the mechanical and vascular mechanisms responsible for lesions in both groups of patients may differ in nature or occur in a different sequence.
(18) Why isn't it more concerned that the government's Funding for Lending scheme appears to be driving mortgage lending over SME loans?
(19) This arrangement is different from that seen in the alpha and gamma herpesvirus families, lending further support to the notion that HHV-6 is a member of the beta herpesvirus group.
(20) That the various leukotriene components of SRS-A have unique receptors on responding tissues and are recoverable from airway surfaces in several inflammatory lung diseases and that several resident and infiltrating cell types have significant potential for leukotriene biosynthesis lend further support to their postulated pathobiologic roles.
Usury
Definition:
(v. t.) A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.
(v. t.) The practice of taking interest.
(v. t.) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eventually, we were sucked dry: but the centre's greed is boundless, and now they want to gain more through usury and, if bad comes to worse, political domination.
(2) Such criticism was vocalised by the future Archbishop of Canterbury who described the terms of some of their loans as "usurious" and its business model as " morally wrong ".
(3) Extortion and usury last year brought in a substantial €2.9bn, while embezzlement earned the mafia €2.4bn and gambling €1.3bn.
(4) Why not neighborhood bowling leagues, usury and the gibbet?
(5) Naturally, as polyamory and bed hopping have had very little effect on bowling or usury.
(6) The traitorous governments have tried to mislead the Sunni peoples in every Arab land, as corrupt programmes were introduced for them and there spread among them the love of vice, bonds, bribery, usury and abandoning worship and forgetting the rulings of jihad.
(7) Like most of the well-off, I had never heard of Crazy George because the well-off never need credit at these usurious rates when every bank is tripping over itself to lend cash to the rich at good rates.
(8) Other edits by lobbyists range from a computer in the offices of payday lender Wonga deleting references to "usury" from its entry, to a computer registered to the American multinational Dow Chemical repeatedly attempting to remove a large section from the company's profile detailing "controversies".
(9) Within days, the government agreed to broaden the scope of the review and raised the prospect of regulating legal money-lending in Britain for the first time since usury laws were repealed in the 19th century.
(10) It is becoming clear payday lending premised on usurious interest rates is no longer either legitimate or particularly profitable.
(11) Indeed they say they face exploitation at every step: from real estate agents who charge exorbitant penalties for late rents to salesmen who charge usurious rates of credit on white goods.
(12) Global finance has to accept it has responsibilities, not usurious claims that must always be met in full whatever the pain.
(13) In the UK, debate rages as to whether high-cost, short-term loans perform a useful social function in a society where support from the state is being reduced, or are just a legal form of usury, only a notch above loan sharks.
(14) However, the push for anti-usury laws, organised by the centre-left pressure group Compass, community organisers Citizens UK, church groups, academics and debt advice groups received a fillip last month when Creasy got widespread support for her 10-minute rule bill on regulating the "high-interest legal home credit market".
(15) Griesa's ruling, however, encourages usurious behaviour, threatens the functioning of international financial markets, and defies a basic tenet of modern capitalism: insolvent debtors need a fresh start.
(16) Maduro has spoken of jailing retailers, criticising the "speculation and usury" that he blames for Venezuela's economic woes.
(17) African Americans living in postal codes with depressed incomes likely do respond disproportionately to ads for usurious “payday” loans.