loan

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An instance of lending.
• noun A sum of money that is lent, usually with an interest fee.
• noun The agreement or contract specifying the terms and conditions of the repayment of such a sum.
• noun The repayment obligation associated with such an agreement.
• noun The right to payment associated with such an agreement.
• noun The state of being lent for temporary use.
• transitive verb To lend (money or property).

from The Century Dictionary.

• To lend.
• To lend money or other property; make a loan.
• noun A lane.
• noun An open space between fields of corn, left untilled as a passage for cattle; hence, a place near a village for milking cows. Also loaning.
• noun A grant; gift; reward.
• noun That which is lent; anything furnished on condition of the future return of it, or of the delivery of an equivalent in kind; especially, a sum of money lent at interest.
• noun The act of lending or the condition of being lent; a lending: as, to arrange a loan.
• noun [In civil law, when the loan was made of things which could be returned only by their material equivalent, it was called mutuum; when made of things which could be returned in the identical form, it was called commodatum.]
• noun Permission to use; grant of the use: as, a loan of credit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of lending; a lending; permission to use.
• noun That which one lends or borrows, especially a sum of money lent at interest.
• noun A pawnbroker's shop.
• noun Scot. A loanin.
• transitive verb To lend; -- sometimes with out.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun banking, finance A sum of money or other valuables or consideration that an individual, group or other legal entity borrows from another individual, group or legal entity (the latter often being a financial institution) with the condition that it be returned or repaid at a later date (sometimes with interest).
• noun The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
• noun The permission to borrow any item.
• verb US, informal To lend (something) to (someone).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
• verb give temporarily; let have for a limited time
• noun the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)