LENDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lender mean? 

• LENDER (noun)
  The noun LENDER has 1 sense:

1. someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters

  Familiarity information: LENDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LENDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lender; loaner

Hypernyms ("lender" is a kind of...):

investor (someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lender"):

pawnbroker (a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security)

loan shark; moneylender; shylock; usurer (someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest)

Antonym:

borrower (someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent)

Derivation:

lend (give temporarily; let have for a limited time)

 Context examples 

But you couldn't get along without masters of some sort, and there arose a new set of masters—not the great, virile, noble men, but the shrewd and spidery traders and money-lenders.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You are doing well at work, and your lender will be impressed with your professional progress, which is why your banker will be willing to work with you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you are in the market for a mortgage, need to refinance your present mortgage, or want a home improvement loan, go to several lenders—February 21 would be your day to be thrilled with the answer you receive.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A pauper himself, a slave to the money-lender, he knew himself the superior of those he met at the Morses'; and, when his one decent suit of clothes was out of pawn, he moved among them a lord of life, quivering with a sense of outrage akin to what a prince would suffer if condemned to live with goat-herds.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Saturn’s presence at eclipse time reveals you are inclined to have a disciplined approach, and Pluto’s opposition to the moon suggests you might have stringent terms from your lender or venture capitalist.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)