LOANING Synonyms: 11 Similar and Opposite Words

loaning

verb

Definition of loaning

present participle of loan

as in lending

to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned can you loan me your lawn mower this weekend?

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Recent Examples of loaning Kaiser will also be purchasing and loaning a $7 million modular building to support the emergency department's expansion. — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026 The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has dispatched about 150 personnel and 20 engines to Washington, while individual California fire departments are also loaning crews. — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026 The city has proposed about $6 million in public incentives for the Novelist project, which would include loaning developers $4 million up front, along with freezing the property taxes on the hotel for its first 10 years. — Ilana Arougheti july 14, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026 Everton have an option in place to buy him after loaning him in January and that still remains a possibility, but there are other clubs keen too. — James McNicholas, New York Times, 2 June 2026 Tatler reported that this piece was given to then-Princess Elizabeth for her 1947 wedding to Prince Philip, but the monarch never wore that tiara in public, loaning it instead to her only daughter. — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 28 May 2026 Mejer was initially charged with child endangerment, accessory after the fact to a crime, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, loaning a motor vehicle to an unlicensed driver and providing false information to a peace officer. — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026 Lamborghini supported the event by loaning Robb Report a Revuelto, the Italian automaker’s flagship hybrid supercar. — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 1 May 2026 The federal government was considering loaning the company up to $500 million in exchange for warrants to take a significant stake in the company, but the rescue deal appeared to be off after disagreement among White House officials and Spirit bondholders, the Wall Street Journal reported. — Peter Warren, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2026

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lending

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But no matter the amount returned, states have held that their specific rules apply to banks lending within their borders.

— P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026
Many of the voters of the other political parties have been lending him their support, partly in the hope of embarrassing Farage.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

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