loan
Plural
loans
1
a sum of money that is borrowed from a bank which should be returned with a certain rate of interest
- She took out a loan to buy her first home, which she plans to repay over 30 years.
- Small businesses often rely on loans to finance their startup costs.
- The bank offers different types of loans, including personal, auto, and home loans.
- He struggled to make the monthly payments on his student loan.
- They applied for a loan to expand their business operations.
2
a word or expression adopted from another language and incorporated into the borrowing language
- "Kindergarten" is a loan from German.
- English contains many loans from French and Latin.
- The word "ballet" is a loan used in many languages.
- Linguists study how loans are adapted phonologically.
- "Café" is a common loan in English from French.
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