LENDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lending mean? 

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

1. disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LENDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

lending; loaning

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

disposal; disposition (the act or means of getting rid of something)

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

usury (the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest)

 Context examples 

We had no story-telling that evening, and Traddles insisted on lending me his pillow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The red planet will join Saturn (long-term gain), Pluto (power), and Jupiter (fantastic good fortune), lending quite a bit of planetary power to support your every move.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Super-Earths are the most common type of planet to form around low-mass stars such as Barnard’s Star, lending credibility to this newly discovered planetary candidate.

(Super-Earth Discovered Around Barnard's Star, ESO)

And I should never have expected you to be lending your sanction to such vanity-baits for poor young ladies.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"Let me mend them," said I. "I don't mind it, and he needn't know. I'd like to, he's so kind to me about bringing my letters and lending books."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Tired though we all were, two were sent out for firewood; two more were set to dig a grave for Redruth; the doctor was named cook; I was put sentry at the door; and the captain himself went from one to another, keeping up our spirits and lending a hand wherever it was wanted.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

That makes Ambopteryx a powerful find, lending weight to the idea Yi qi did indeed develop a separate method of flight, similar to that of the pterosaurs but different to the line of dinosaurs that would eventually become birds.

(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

She feared for William; by no means convinced by all that he could relate of his own horsemanship in various countries, of the scrambling parties in which he had been engaged, the rough horses and mules he had ridden, or his many narrow escapes from dreadful falls, that he was at all equal to the management of a high-fed hunter in an English fox-chase; nor till he returned safe and well, without accident or discredit, could she be reconciled to the risk, or feel any of that obligation to Mr. Crawford for lending the horse which he had fully intended it should produce.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I'm sure it's the least I can do when you have been so kind, lending me things and helping me get ready, said Meg, glancing round the room at the very simple outfit, which seemed nearly perfect in their eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mary Kingsley insisted on lending her her watch till recess, and Jenny Snow, a satirical young lady, who had basely twitted Amy upon her limeless state, promptly buried the hatchet and offered to furnish answers to certain appalling sums.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)