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Definition of Lend |
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Lend
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. 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. To afford; to grant or furnish in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend one's name or influence. To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig. Related Definitions: Afford, Allow, An, And, Article, As, Assistance, Book, Borrow, Compensation, Condition, Custody, Equivalent, Food, For, Furnish, General, Gig, Grant, Hire, Horse, In, Influence, Kind, Lend, Let, Money, Name, Of, On, One, Opposed, Or, Possession, Return, Same, Some, Temporary, The, To, Use |
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Lend Quotations
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. Robert Frost Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. Erma Bombeck If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. Bob Hope Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. Rudyard Kipling Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. Hippocrates Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. Michel de Montaigne Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. George Santayana I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. Muhammad Yunus |
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Lend Translations
lend in Afrikaans is uitleen lend in Dutch is lenen, voorschieten, uitlenen lend in Finnish is lainata lend in German is ausleihen, leihen, verleihen lend in Italian is prestare, imprestare lend in Latin is commodo, mutuo lend in Portuguese is emprestar, empreste lend in Spanish is prestar, prestar |
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