verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bank lends sth
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The bank lent me £10,000 to help me start the business.
a lending library (= one that lends books )
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Lending libraries became increasingly popular in Victorian times.
give/lend/offer etc sb a helping hand
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She’s been giving me a helping hand with the children.
lend credence to sth (= to make something more believable )
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The DNA results lend credence to Hausmann’s claims of innocence.
lend credibility to sb/sth (= make something or someone have more credibility )
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The evidence lent credibility to their arguments.
lend sb money
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My dad lent me money to buy a car.
lending library
lending rate
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
to
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They can lend to and buy from other banks.
■ NOUN
air
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This, in traditional form, is a treacly brown colour and lends a definite antique air to what you are polishing.
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Mire Secondly, Pache's style does not lend any air of the dynamism needed to steer Bull out of its current mire.
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Or does the environment lend itself to the air power and precision-guided missiles of a Steve Forbes?
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The large headstock, with its shallow pitch, looks quite in keeping and the mini-Schaller machineheads help lend an up-market air .
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And his extrajudicial comments disparaging Microsoft and its officers lent an air of bias to his action against the company.
bank
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There was, however, a swing from bonds and bank lending to equity-related bonds.
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He urged the bank executives to keep lending to investment firms and other businesses.
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The lending bank lends funds and in return accepts the bankers acceptance.
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He said the bank hoped to increase lending again this year.
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The basic bank lending rate was set at 36 percent per month.
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Last December the Federal Reserve adjusted its reserve requirements on time deposits to encourage banks to lend more.
credence
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The absence of military protection for the abolitionists in Alton lends credence to legal indifference that bound the country at this time.
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It lends credence to the kinds of beliefs and fears that make victims of all who hold them.
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These debates lend credence to the view that the southern states would not have ratified the Constitution without the proslavery compromises.
credibility
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Jim slipped on his overcoat and grabbed his briefcase as well as his large portfolio case to lend credibility to his story.
ear
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears .
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He finds time for them, always being prepared to lend a sympathetic ear or give some friendly confidential advice.
firm
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Though banks lend huge sums to firms , banks are not the only source of lending.
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Suppose a bank agrees to lend to a firm upon demand up to a certain amount.
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He urged the bank executives to keep lending to investment firms and other businesses.
funds
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Banks borrow and lend wholesale funds amongst themselves, dealing through money brokers, for periods ranging from overnight to five years.
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The lending bank lends funds and in return accepts the bankers acceptance.
hand
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I just thought I'd come up and lend a hand .
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He may have lent a hand in the construction of the Jefferys pocket watch and even of H-4.
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It was a well attended meeting, thanks to all who lent a hand .
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Women came by from other camps to lend a hand , bringing prashad.
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If a comrade paused to lend a hand , it often meant that two would drown instead of one.
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Nick and I laid out tow ropes to the bow of the raft, and cajoled bystanders to lend a hand .
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Plenty of food makes it better to bear daughters who can lend a hand .
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Joe lent a hand to all, and supplied much of the muscle.
helping
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Britain's champion in the sport has been lending a helping hand.
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Petion, follow them and lend a helping hand.
house
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For example, the rules restricted societies to lending for house purchase.
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The retail-finance industry changed in many ways as a result - but most of all in lending for house purchase.
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I have friends who lend me a house there every summer for a few weeks, if I want it.
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The most obvious effect was to constrain societies to their traditional role of lending for house purchase.
money
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Markets-where money is lent and borrowed, and paper assets are bought and sold.
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The seven companies expect to lose nearly half the money they lent after selling collateral held on the nonperforming debt.
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Much of this money is lent on an overnight basis.
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If rates rise, investors can get rid of the bonds and use their money to lend at higher rates.
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They will have very much more money available to lend than either the Co-op Bank or Girobank.
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Subsequently, money was lent interest-free by Mr Fynn to the trust.
mortgage
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As a consequence direct mortgage lending to owner occupiers increased sharply.
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Woolwich is engaged primarily in mortgage lending and deposit taking and has 550, 000 borrowers.
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Net mortgage lending by building societies dropped 15 percent to Pounds 1.85 billion last month.
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That disparity was due to the high level of mortgage lending at Bankinter.
name
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Can he lend his name to the petition without compromising his professional integrity?
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Is he actually involved, or just lending his name to it?
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But a more calculating side is emerging, where celebrities are almost being blackmailed into lending their names to causes.
rate
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Dall was effectively trading money; he sought to borrow each day at the cheapest rates and lend at the highest.
sum
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They got engaged after he proposed and she lent him large sums of money.
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Though banks lend huge sums to firms, banks are not the only source of lending.
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Over the next few years, Mrs J was pressured into lending her son large sums of money.
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Generally, banks are not eager to lend huge sums to lottery winners based on the winnings alone.
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He lent considerable sums to the crown, perhaps as much as £50,000 between 1373 and 1376.
support
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Some psychoanalytic writing appears to lend support to these assumptions.
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Mayor Brown has lent his support to the bill, writing a letter to Sen.
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Lind makes no apparent use of this book, perhaps because it lends so little support to his view of the war.
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We see this as a national event of great importance and we are lending it our full support .
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The historical case studies carried out by Lakatos and his followers certainly lend some support to that latter claim.
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In these circumstances it was the business of responsible churchmen to lend support to the monarch in every way they could.
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He promised to lend no more support to his half-brothers in Angoulême.
weight
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I lent weight to his side of the story but they sent him down.
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The bishops insisted that the Capitol Hill prayer vigil was non-partisan, but the impending election lent the event political weight .
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A woman of such forthright views as yourself would, I feel, lend considerable weight to this project.
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I owe it to Victoria to lend some retrospective weight to our parting.
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It's the first time a leading drinks company has lent its weight to such a campaign.
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The law lends its weight to uphold and enforce contracts freely entered into.
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Not withstanding the need for more investigation, the evidence surveyed in the previous chapter certainly lends weight to this view.
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Recognising this paradox lends weight to the patriarchy thesis, explaining away many apparent counter-examples.
■ VERB
agree
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He agreed to lend the Lysander in exchange for two cases of Scotch whisky.
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Suppose a bank agrees to lend to a firm upon demand up to a certain amount.
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Accordingly, I wrote to Eliot asking whether he would agree to lend us his assistance and his authority in this way.
borrow
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Banks borrow and lend wholesale funds amongst themselves, dealing through money brokers, for periods ranging from overnight to five years.
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But he was borrowing and lending for only that one day.
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However, when the risk-free asset is introduced to this situation investors will all either borrow or lend at the risk-free rate.
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Each economic unit borrows and lends at the same time because individual transactions are undertaken for different reasons.
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In reality, individuals may not be able to borrow and lend freely at a given interest rate.
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The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest.
offer
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Daniel had been offering to lend her his favourite book of poetry as she had developed a liking for it.
prepare
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Few financial institutions are prepared to lend to proprietors and partnerships on this basis.
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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
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Can you lend me $20?
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Did you lend that book to Mike?
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I lent my penknife to someone, but I can't remember who it was now.
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I wish I'd never lent him my car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Banks would lend money more freely and, in fattening their own balance sheets, would feed credit-starved economies.
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Eddie lent it back to me.
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That disparity was due to the high level of mortgage lending at Bankinter.
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The next chapter reviews actual bank lending techniques and practices.
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They have proved beneficial for plants partly because of their cotton fibre content, which lends moisture.
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They will be eager to lend to you.
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To carry emotional moments, Miller pumps up the treacly soundtrack, lending it the importance of a main character.
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Tom Robb, a teacher of over 30 years, can lend advice on may technical problems.