Usually means: Borrowing money with repayment terms.
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We found 58 dictionaries that define the word loan:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. loan: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. loan: Merriam-Webster
  3. loan, loan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. loan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. loan: Collins English Dictionary
  6. loan: Vocabulary.com
  7. loan: Wordnik
  8. loan: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. loan: Wiktionary
  10. loan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. loan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. loan: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. loan: Dictionary.com
  14. loan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. loan: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Loan (disambiguation), Loan (football), Loan (sports), Loan, .loan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Loan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. loan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. loan: Rhymezone
  20. loan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. loan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. loan: FreeDictionary.org
  23. loan-: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. loan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. loan: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. loan: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loan: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. loan: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. loan: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. LOAN: Accounting Glossary
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Loan: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Loan: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  9. loan: Finance-Glossary.com
  10. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  13. Loan: Investopedia
  14. Loan (bank), loan: Legal dictionary
  15. Loan (bank), Loan: Financial dictionary
  16. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  17. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Loan (bank), loan: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. LOAN: Acronym Finder
  4. loan: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Loan: Easton Bible
  2. Loan: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archeological Collections Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. loan: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Loan: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Loan: Construction Glossary
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See loanable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (law, banking, finance) An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
noun:  (law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).
noun:  The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
noun:  The permission to borrow any item.
verb:  (usually ditransitive, US, dated and occasionally proscribed in UK, informal) To lend (something) to (someone).
noun:  (Scotland, Northern England) An area of uncultivated ground near a village or farmhouse.

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