loan

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of LOAN

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?>

Synonyms advance, loan

Related Words furnish, give, grant; lease, let [chiefly British], rent

Near Antonyms receive, take

Antonyms borrow

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