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on-loaning

on-loaning is the present participle and gerund of on-loan.

Meaning of on-loan

Verb

on-loan (third-person singular simple present on-loans, present participle on-loaning, simple past and past participle on-loaned)

  1. (transitive) To onlend;
    • 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 […]2002, Richard Auty, Sustaining Development in Mineral Economies: The Resource Curse Thesis

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Questions about on-loaning

What is on-loaning the present participle and gerund of?
On-loaning is the present participle and gerund of on-loan.

Words near on-loaning in the dictionary

  1. on-hook
  2. on-leash
  3. on-line
  4. on-loan
  5. on-loaned
  6. on-loaning
  7. on-loans
  8. on-looker
  9. on-lookers
  10. on-message
  11. on-off

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