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lend
( also loan especially American English ) to let someone borrow money or something that belongs to you for a short time:
• Can you lend me $20? • Did you lend that book to Mike? • The documents were loaned by the local library.
let somebody use something/let somebody have something
to let someone use something that belongs to you for a short time, especially a room, a house, or something big and expensive:
• Some friends are letting us use their house while they are on vacation. • Dad said he’d let me have his car for the weekend.
be on loan
if something is on loan, it has been lent to a person or organization in an official way – often used about a library book or a work of art:
• The museum has an exhibition of paintings on loan from the Louvre. • According to the computer, this book is still out on loan.
Longman-Thesaurus
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verb
loan:
I want you to lend me your book.
Simple Definitions
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verb ADV. kindly She very kindly lent me her bicycle. VERB + LEND be prepared to, be willing to | refuse to, be unwilling to The bank was unwilling to lend him the money. | persuade sb to PREP. to I've lent my car to George for the weekend.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary