LEND


Meaning of LEND in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bank lends sth

The bank lent me £10,000 to help me start the business.

a lending library (= one that lends books )

Lending libraries became increasingly popular in Victorian times.

give/lend/offer etc sb a helping hand

She’s been giving me a helping hand with the children.

lend credence to sth (= to make something more believable )

The DNA results lend credence to Hausmann’s claims of innocence.

lend credibility to sb/sth (= make something or someone have more credibility )

The evidence lent credibility to their arguments.

lend sb money

My dad lent me money to buy a car.

lending library

lending rate

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

to

They can lend to and buy from other banks.

■ NOUN

air

This, in traditional form, is a treacly brown colour and lends a definite antique air to what you are polishing.

Mire Secondly, Pache's style does not lend any air of the dynamism needed to steer Bull out of its current mire.

Or does the environment lend itself to the air power and precision-guided missiles of a Steve Forbes?

The large headstock, with its shallow pitch, looks quite in keeping and the mini-Schaller machineheads help lend an up-market air .

And his extrajudicial comments disparaging Microsoft and its officers lent an air of bias to his action against the company.

bank

There was, however, a swing from bonds and bank lending to equity-related bonds.

He urged the bank executives to keep lending to investment firms and other businesses.

The lending bank lends funds and in return accepts the bankers acceptance.

He said the bank hoped to increase lending again this year.

The basic bank lending rate was set at 36 percent per month.

Last December the Federal Reserve adjusted its reserve requirements on time deposits to encourage banks to lend more.

credence

The absence of military protection for the abolitionists in Alton lends credence to legal indifference that bound the country at this time.

It lends credence to the kinds of beliefs and fears that make victims of all who hold them.

These debates lend credence to the view that the southern states would not have ratified the Constitution without the proslavery compromises.

credibility

Jim slipped on his overcoat and grabbed his briefcase as well as his large portfolio case to lend credibility to his story.

ear

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears .

He finds time for them, always being prepared to lend a sympathetic ear or give some friendly confidential advice.

firm

Though banks lend huge sums to firms , banks are not the only source of lending.

Suppose a bank agrees to lend to a firm upon demand up to a certain amount.

He urged the bank executives to keep lending to investment firms and other businesses.

funds

Banks borrow and lend wholesale funds amongst themselves, dealing through money brokers, for periods ranging from overnight to five years.

The lending bank lends funds and in return accepts the bankers acceptance.

hand

I just thought I'd come up and lend a hand .

He may have lent a hand in the construction of the Jefferys pocket watch and even of H-4.

It was a well attended meeting, thanks to all who lent a hand .

Women came by from other camps to lend a hand , bringing prashad.

If a comrade paused to lend a hand , it often meant that two would drown instead of one.

Nick and I laid out tow ropes to the bow of the raft, and cajoled bystanders to lend a hand .

Plenty of food makes it better to bear daughters who can lend a hand .

Joe lent a hand to all, and supplied much of the muscle.

helping

Britain's champion in the sport has been lending a helping hand.

Petion, follow them and lend a helping hand.

house

For example, the rules restricted societies to lending for house purchase.

The retail-finance industry changed in many ways as a result - but most of all in lending for house purchase.

I have friends who lend me a house there every summer for a few weeks, if I want it.

The most obvious effect was to constrain societies to their traditional role of lending for house purchase.

money

Markets-where money is lent and borrowed, and paper assets are bought and sold.

The seven companies expect to lose nearly half the money they lent after selling collateral held on the nonperforming debt.

Much of this money is lent on an overnight basis.

If rates rise, investors can get rid of the bonds and use their money to lend at higher rates.

They will have very much more money available to lend than either the Co-op Bank or Girobank.

Subsequently, money was lent interest-free by Mr Fynn to the trust.

mortgage

As a consequence direct mortgage lending to owner occupiers increased sharply.

Woolwich is engaged primarily in mortgage lending and deposit taking and has 550, 000 borrowers.

Net mortgage lending by building societies dropped 15 percent to Pounds 1.85 billion last month.

That disparity was due to the high level of mortgage lending at Bankinter.

name

Can he lend his name to the petition without compromising his professional integrity?

Is he actually involved, or just lending his name to it?

But a more calculating side is emerging, where celebrities are almost being blackmailed into lending their names to causes.

rate

Dall was effectively trading money; he sought to borrow each day at the cheapest rates and lend at the highest.

sum

They got engaged after he proposed and she lent him large sums of money.

Though banks lend huge sums to firms, banks are not the only source of lending.

Over the next few years, Mrs J was pressured into lending her son large sums of money.

Generally, banks are not eager to lend huge sums to lottery winners based on the winnings alone.

He lent considerable sums to the crown, perhaps as much as £50,000 between 1373 and 1376.

support

Some psychoanalytic writing appears to lend support to these assumptions.

Mayor Brown has lent his support to the bill, writing a letter to Sen.

Lind makes no apparent use of this book, perhaps because it lends so little support to his view of the war.

We see this as a national event of great importance and we are lending it our full support .

The historical case studies carried out by Lakatos and his followers certainly lend some support to that latter claim.

In these circumstances it was the business of responsible churchmen to lend support to the monarch in every way they could.

He promised to lend no more support to his half-brothers in Angoulême.

weight

I lent weight to his side of the story but they sent him down.

The bishops insisted that the Capitol Hill prayer vigil was non-partisan, but the impending election lent the event political weight .

A woman of such forthright views as yourself would, I feel, lend considerable weight to this project.

I owe it to Victoria to lend some retrospective weight to our parting.

It's the first time a leading drinks company has lent its weight to such a campaign.

The law lends its weight to uphold and enforce contracts freely entered into.

Not withstanding the need for more investigation, the evidence surveyed in the previous chapter certainly lends weight to this view.

Recognising this paradox lends weight to the patriarchy thesis, explaining away many apparent counter-examples.

■ VERB

agree

He agreed to lend the Lysander in exchange for two cases of Scotch whisky.

Suppose a bank agrees to lend to a firm upon demand up to a certain amount.

Accordingly, I wrote to Eliot asking whether he would agree to lend us his assistance and his authority in this way.

borrow

Banks borrow and lend wholesale funds amongst themselves, dealing through money brokers, for periods ranging from overnight to five years.

But he was borrowing and lending for only that one day.

However, when the risk-free asset is introduced to this situation investors will all either borrow or lend at the risk-free rate.

Each economic unit borrows and lends at the same time because individual transactions are undertaken for different reasons.

In reality, individuals may not be able to borrow and lend freely at a given interest rate.

The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest.

offer

Daniel had been offering to lend her his favourite book of poetry as she had developed a liking for it.

prepare

Few financial institutions are prepared to lend to proprietors and partnerships on this basis.

He finds time for them, always being prepared to lend a sympathetic ear or give some friendly confidential advice.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

lend/give colour to sth

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Can you lend me $20?

Did you lend that book to Mike?

I lent my penknife to someone, but I can't remember who it was now.

I wish I'd never lent him my car.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Banks would lend money more freely and, in fattening their own balance sheets, would feed credit-starved economies.

Eddie lent it back to me.

That disparity was due to the high level of mortgage lending at Bankinter.

The next chapter reviews actual bank lending techniques and practices.

They have proved beneficial for plants partly because of their cotton fibre content, which lends moisture.

They will be eager to lend to you.

To carry emotional moments, Miller pumps up the treacly soundtrack, lending it the importance of a main character.

Tom Robb, a teacher of over 30 years, can lend advice on may technical problems.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.