lend

lend
/lend/ verb past tense and past participle lent /lent/
1 MONEY/CAR/BOOK ETC
a) (T) to let someone borrow money from you or use something that you own, which they will give you back later: lend sb sth: I wish I'd never lent him my car. | Can you lend me $20 till Friday? | lend sth to sb: Reluctantly, I agreed to lend it to her.
b) (I, T) if a bank or financial institution lends money, it lets someone borrow it on condition that they pay it back, often gradually, with an additional amount as interest: We aim to lend money at reasonable rates of interest. | lend sth to sb: US banks lent billions of dollars to Third World countries in the 1970s.
 -see borrow
2 (sb) a hand to help someone do something, especially something that needs physical effort
3 lend an ear to listen to someone, especially in a sympathetic way
4 lend itself to to be suitable for being used in a particular way: None of her books really lends itself to being made into a film.
5 GIVE A QUALITY (T) formal to give a situation, event etc a particular quality: The Duke's presence lent the occasion a certain air of dignity. | lend sth to sth: His soft accent lends a kind of warmth to his words.
6 lend support/assistance to support or help someone
7 lend weight to to make an opinion, belief etc seem more likely to be correct: The new evidence lends weight to the theory that the killer was a man.
8 lend your name/voice to to announce publicly that you support something someone is trying to do
- lender noun (C)

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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