Need another word that means the same as “loan”? Find 13 synonyms and 30 related words for “loan” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Loan” are: loanword, credit, advance, lend, give credit, allow, borrow, ask for the loan of, receive on loan, take on loan, use temporarily
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “loan” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| advance | A development or improvement. An advance from the bank. |
| credit | Used in the phrase to your credit in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise. She already had several performances to her credit. |
| loanword | A word adopted from a foreign language with little or no modification. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “loan” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| advance | Pay in advance. Women tend not to advance in the major law firms. |
| allow | Allow the presence of or allow an activity without opposing or prohibiting. We don t allow dogs here. |
| ask for the loan of | Inquire about. |
| borrow | Take and use (a book) from a library for a fixed period of time. To meet this deficit the government has to borrow money. |
| credit | Give someone credit for something. She was not properly credited in the program. |
| give credit | Manifest or show. |
| lend | Give temporarily; let have for a limited time. Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company. |
| receive on loan | Register (perceptual input. |
| take on loan | Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere. |
| use temporarily | Use up, consume fully. |
| amortize | Reduce or pay off (a debt) with regular payments. Lands amortized without licence. |
| bail | Release or secure the release of a prisoner on payment of bail. Nine were bailed on drugs charges. |
| broker | Act as a broker. The centralized lenders operate through brokers. |
| cash | Exchange for cash. She was always short of cash. |
| collateral | A security pledged for the repayment of a loan. Collateral casualties. |
| dealer | The major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account. His mother was a crack dealer and he had a very troubled family life. |
| debenture | A long-term security yielding a fixed rate of interest, issued by a company and secured against assets. |
| debt | Money or goods or services owed by one person to another. A way to reduce Third World debt. |
| default | Declare a party to have defaulted and give judgement against that party. SSRIs have become the default for adults with depression. |
| disbursement | The act of spending or disbursing money. They established a committee to supervise the disbursement of aid. |
| expense | Charge something to an expense account. Book into the best hotel you can find and hang the expense. |
| financing | The act of financing. |
| foreclosure | The legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default. Major increases in home foreclosures. |
| fund | Accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability. The World Bank refused to fund the project. |
| funding | The action or practice of providing funding. Funding bodies for research and curriculum development. |
| guarantor | A person or organization that provides a guarantee. The role of the police as guarantors of public order. |
| holder | A smallholder. A towel holder. |
| lend | Contribute or add (a quality) to. The current system lends itself to great abuse. |
| lender | Someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters. A mortgage lender. |
| moratorium | A legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged. The debt was to be subject to a five year moratorium. |
| mortgage | The amount of money borrowed in a mortgage. I put down a hundred thousand in cash and took out a mortgage for the rest. |
| owe | Owe something especially money to. They have denied they owe money to the company. |
| proceeds | The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property. Proceeds from the event will go to aid the work of the charity. |
| refinance | Finance (something) again, typically with new loans at a lower rate of interest. Companies must refinance 20 billion of warrants and bonds. |
| refund | The act of returning money received previously. Please refund me my money. |
| repayment | The action of paying back a loan. Minimum monthly repayments. |
| surety | One who provides a warrant or guarantee to another. The magistrate granted bail with a surety of 500. |
| tenant | Occupy as a tenant. A frequent tenant of the gossip columns. |
| usurious | Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation. Usurious interest rate. |
| usury | Interest at unreasonably high rates. The medieval prohibition on usury. |
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