loan betydelse and definition

Betydelse av loan på svenska

• 0 an amount of money that is borrowed, often from a bank, and has to be paid back, usually together with an extra amount of money that you have to pay as a charge for borrowing:

  • She's trying to get a $50,000 loan to start her own business.

  • We could apply for/take out a loan to buy a car.

• 1 an act of borrowing or lending something:

  • Thank you very much for the loan of your bike.

  • This exhibit is on loan (= being borrowed/lent) from/to another museum.

• 2 If a football player is on loan, they are playing for a different club for a limited period of time:

  • He spent a month on loan at Newcastle.

• 3 to lend:

  • This library loans books and CDs.

  • [ + two objects ] I'd loan you the money if I could./I'd loan the money to you if I could.

• 4 an act of lending something, esp. a sum of money that that has to be paid back with interest (= an additional amount of money that is a percentage of the amount borrowed), or an amount of money that has been lent:

  • [ U ] Thanks for the loan of your bike.

  • [ C ] My brother repaid his student loan within five years.

  • The painting is on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (= has been lent to it, esp. for more than a short period of time).

• 5 to lend something, esp. money:

  • Can you loan me $10 until payday?

• 6 money that someone borrows from a bank or other financial organization for a period of time during which they pay interest:

  • a loan to sb/sth The bank's portfolio of loans to commercial and industrial firms shrank from $15.7 billion the previous year to $12.7 billion.

  • get/take out/apply for a loan Before you take out a loan sit down and list all the money you have coming in.

  • pay off/pay back/repay a loan New restrictions require lenders to check a person's income and ability to repay the loan.

  • provide/give/make a loan World banks injected as much as $64 billion into global money markets to encourage banks to make loans again.

  • approve/refuse a loan

  • a low-interest/fixed-rate/interest-only loan

  • Banks and particularly building societies expect the amount of loans in arrears to increase.

• 7 to lend someone something:

  • loan sb sth/loan sth to sb The finance report showed that a wealthy donor had loaned his campaign $1.15 million.

  • Lenders who loaned money for more than houses were worth have become victims of the economic downturn.