onlend
onlend verb: to loan out something that has been borrowed.
Verb
onlend (third-person singular simple present onlends, present participle onlending, simple past and past participle onlent)
- To loan out something that has been borrowed.
- A country which has experimented with this approach in recent years is Sri Lanka (Sanderatne 1989) where NGOs not only borrow and onlend directly but also give guarantees to the banks (although these are kept hidden from borrowers) or sometimes merely their "approval" to a loan, and assist in its...1992, Prabhu Ghate, Arindam Das-Gupta, Informal finance: some findings from Asia, page 185
- Availability of credit boosts nominal aggregate demand by changing volume of liquidity available to banks, which the latter then onlend.2004, Armine Khachatryan, Mr. David A. Grigorian, Grigor Sargsyan, Exchange Rate, Money, and Wages: What is Driving Prices in Armenia?, →ISBN
Forms of onlend
| third-person singular present | onlends |
|---|---|
| present participle | onlending |
| past participle | onlent |
| past | onlent |
Origin of onlend
From on- + lend.
Questions about onlend
- What does onlend mean?
- Onlend means to loan out something that has been borrowed.
- What part of speech is onlend?
- Onlend is a verb.
- What is the past tense of onlend?
- The past tense of onlend is onlent.
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