lender
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
Definition of lender
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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One who lends, especially money; specifically, a bank or other entity that specializes in granting loans.
“[Polonius]: Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”
“Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.”
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noun
-
One who lends, especially money; specifically, a bank or other entity that specializes in granting loans.
“[Polonius]: Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”
“Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.”
name
- A surname from German.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English lendare, leendare, variants of lenner, lenere, equivalent to lend + -er.
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