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on-loan
on-loan
See also: on loan
English
Verb
on-loan (third-person singular simple present on-loans, present participle on-loaning, simple past and past participle on-loaned)
- (transitive) To give as a loan; lend
- 2002, Richard Auty, Sustaining Development in Mineral Economies: The Resource Curse Thesis
- This became necessary because the 1982 exchange rate devaluation virtually bankrupted the Chilean financial sector (Loser 1987). The banks had borrowed large sums denominated in dollars and on-loaned them to domestic borrowers […]
- 2013, Mohamed Hamza, Roger Zetter, Market Economy and Urban Change: Impacts in the Developing World:
- By the late 1980s, the World Bank gradually reduced its direct sites-and-services projects; but these continued indirectly where countries 'on-loaned' funds to social housing programmes, as was the case in Chile during years of 1984–1988.
- 2002, Richard Auty, Sustaining Development in Mineral Economies: The Resource Curse Thesis