Loan and To borrow

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Loan verb - To give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned.

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To borrow and loan are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To borrow" with "Loan", this terms are similar.

Nearby Words: loaned, loaning, loanable

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Loan and to borrow are semantically related. You can use "Loan" instead a verb phrase "To borrow".

He gets into trouble with a loan shark because he invested all his money in his brother's restaurant so he had to borrow more to keep up his gambling habit.

Source: The Gambling Addict
Loan Shark: Misplaced Optimism has two companies that allow players to borrow money from: MisOp Finance in the Downtown crater, and Charlie Wadsworth in the Riverside crater.

Source: Video Game / Hardwar
Keeping these relationships forced Emma to borrow money from a Loan Shark, which lead to her ruining her life and the life of her family.

Source: Good Adultery, Bad Adultery

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