| Loan 1. (n.) A loaning. 2. (n.) The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services. 3. (n.) That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan. 4. (n. t.) To lend; -- sometimes with out. Thesaurus Entries Wall Street loan, accommodate with, accommodation, advance, allow, allowance, call loan, call money, collateral loan, credit, demand loan, external loan, float a loan, foreign loan, lease-lend, lend, lend-lease, loan-shark, long-term loan, negotiate a loan, policy loan, secured loan, short-term loan, time loan, unsecured loan |