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on-loans

on-loans is the third-person singular simple present indicative of on-loan.

on-loans is the plural 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-loans

What is on-loans the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
On-loans is the third-person singular simple present indicative of on-loan.

Words near on-loans in the dictionary

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

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