LOANING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loaning mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOANING (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 ("loaning" is a kind of...):

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

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

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