Loan Bank Student Years Repay Money Lent Car

• to take out/repay a loan (= to borrow money/pay it back)
• bank loans with low interest rates
• it took three years to repay my student loan (= money lent to a student).
• a car loan (= a loan to buy a car)

loan

1. money that an organization such as a bank lends and somebody borrows
• to take out/repay a loan (= to borrow money/pay it back)
• bank loans with low interest rates
• It took three years to repay my student loan (= money lent to a student).
• a car loan (= a loan to buy a car)
2. the act of lending something; the state of being lent
• I even gave her the loan of my car.
• an exhibition of paintings on loan (= borrowed) from private collections

Extra Examples

• He had to use his house as security for the loan.
• He ran up massive debts borrowing from loan sharks.
• He’s given us the loan of his car for the weekend.
• If you have several student loans, you can consolidate them into one lump sum.
• My bank manager offered to make me a loan.
• She had to take out a bridging loan until she could sell her house.
• The bank provides personal loan facilities at competitive rates.
• The banks will not agree to emergency funding unless the government will underwrite the loan.
• The book must be returned by the end of the loan period.
• The paintings are on loan from the Wallace Collection.
• The striker comes to the Premiership on an 18-month loan deal from Roma.
• They used the inheritance to pay off their outstanding loan.
• They were struggling to meet their monthly loan repayments.
• a banking system riddled with bad loans
• a loan from my brother
• a loan officer at a local mortgage company
• loans totalling a million pounds
• loans totalling/totaling a million euros
• the terms of the loan agreement with the bank
• I’m going to have to take out a bank loan to pay for the car.
• It took three years to repay my student loan.
• an exhibition of paintings on loan from private collections

Word Origin

• Middle English (also denoting a gift from a superior): from Old Norse lán, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch leen, German Lehn, also to lend.