Loan and Use

Loan

Loan noun - The temporary provision of money (usually at interest).

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Use and loan are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Use" instead the word "Loan" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: loaned, loaning, loanable

Use noun - The act or practice of employing something for a particular purpose.

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Loan and use are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Loan" instead the word "Use" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: useless, useful, used, usefulness, using

similar	similar loan	similar use
regular	regular loan	regular use
original	original loan	original use
successful	successful loan	successful use
Other adjectives: personal, casual.

energy	loan energy	use energy
power	loan power	use power
money	loan money	use money
machine	loan machine	use machine
Other words: cards, gun, weapons.

He would horribly botch the deal, and the client(s) would call Ditech instead for the loan, leaving him to moan "Lost another loan to Ditech." Around 2003, the character inexplicably disappeared from Ditech's commercials, most likely because the company ran out of ways to use him.

Source: Chuck Cunningham Syndrome / Advertising
The brother mentions a friend of his who is looking for people to cut in on a job, which they can use to pay off the loan shark and get him out of their hair.

Source: Loan Shark
Flying Broomstick: The witches loan Scooby and Shaggy a flying broomstick to use as transportation in the Goblin Kingdom.

Source: Western Animation / Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King

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