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loan
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float a loan
Fig. to get a loan of money; to arrange for a loan of money. I couldn't afford to pay cash for the car, so I floated a loan. They needed money, so they had to float a loan.
See also: float

loan something to someone

to lend something to someone. (Considered to be an error for lend.) Can you loan a few bucks to Sam and me? I will not loan anything to you.

on loan (from someone or something)

[of possession] temporarily granted by someone or some group. This lovely painting is on loan from the Kimble Museum for the rest of the year.

take out a loan

to get a loan of money, especially from a bank. Mary took out a loan to buy a car. We will have to take out a loan to remodel the kitchen.
See also: out, take


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They charge that Federal Reserve governors habitually ignore the market rate of interest at which the demand for loanable funds tends to match the supply.
6045-2 currently provides that transferred shares be allocated first to borrowed shares and then to loanable shares, to the extent the number of transferred shares exceeds the number of borrowed shares.
4) A growing (and now the largest) share of these ample loanable funds--four times the amount lent in 1980--have been put to work by German banks in loans to the non-financial services sector, a low productivity set of small- and medium-enterprises whose loans, as in Japan, are secured mainly by real estate collateral.
 
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