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lend | Business English

lend
verb
uk /lend/uslentuk /lent/ | lentuk /lent/
[ I or T ] BANKING, FINANCE
if a bank or other financial organization lends money to someone, it gives them money for a period of time which they then pay back with interest:
Britain's building societies chiefly lend money for house purchase.
lend $5,000/£2bn/€1m, etc. to sb The Ohio Development Financing Advisory Council agreed to lend $20 million to the Port Authority.
lend sb $5,000/£2bn/€1m, etc.A number of prominent businessmen are rumoured to have lent the Party over £20 million.
lend to sb/sthBanks have been heavily criticized for lending to people who cannot afford the repayments.
[ T ]
to give someone something for a period of time, after which they will give it back to you:
lend sb sth Can you lend me $20?
lend sth to sbHer tasks included persuading stores to offer discounts or lend clothes on approval to her boss.
to give something a quality that makes it better in some way:
lend sth to sthWe hope that these measures will lend stability to the economy.
lend weight (to sth)February's trade figures lend weight to the Fund's less cheerful view.
lend credence/credibility (to sth)Other evidence helped lend credibility to their claims.
 lend a (helping) hand
to do something that helps a company or person:
The Federal Reserve is expected to lend a hand by continuing to cut interest rates forcefully.
 lend your support (to sth)
to support someone or something:
I have lent my support to his plan for a private referendum.

Examples of lend

lend
Below the bridge, the shiny wings of dragonflies lent an air of charm to the creek.
Shortly, we will see how the author of the personification in conjunction with the idea of lending human form and speech to a geographical locus.
Moral support, and on numerous occasions, food and shelter, has been lent by my family and in-laws.
The fact that anti-perfectionism is based on restraint, on not doing as much good as one can, lends it a slightly paradoxical air.
The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer.
A prestigious roster of international architects lends status to the project and client commissioning the work, and enhances the media appeal of the undertaking.
The idea has lent itself to nationalist fantasies, enabling recent identities to be projected far back into the past.
Neither the one nor the other lends itself to transparent deductive or narrative presentation.
The thing to be contradicted has to be strong, so that it lends its weight to the subversion of it.
Obviously, the design also lends itself to evaluating the effects of various mediators and moderators of outcome.
In addition, the medical profession showed more competence in giving direction to unstructured discussions, and in lending significance to the issue in general.
Students also continue throughout the semester to participate in one or two activities from their first rotation, lending some continuity to the practicum experience.
Robots cannot replace syntactic models; but they can instantiate them, as a slide rule does the logarithm, lending credibility.
Metaphors do not poverty make, but through cultural discourse practices are valorized, options legitimated and statuses lent prestige or disparagement.
Few terms lent themselves to being declared one-to-one.
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