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 -- 貸款,借款
2 If a football player is on loan, they are playing for a different club for a limited period of time. -- (足球隊員)被(其他俱樂部)租借
3 to lend -- 借出;貸與
[ + two objects ] I'd loan you the money if I could./I'd loan the money to you if I could. 我要是能借肯定會借給你這筆錢的。
Nowadays many students have to take out loans to top up their grants.
A huge part of national revenue was always spent paying interest on previous loans.
The move away from project loans and towards structural adjustment loans in the 1980s does not diminish the main thrust of this argument.
Although bank loans are a vitally important source of finance, this is not to the complete exclusion of equity issues.