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onlending

onlending is the present participle and gerund of onlend.

Meaning of onlend

Verb

onlend (third-person singular simple present onlends, present participle onlending, simple past and past participle onlent)

  1. 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

Questions about onlending

What is onlending the present participle and gerund of?
Onlending is the present participle and gerund of onlend.

Words near onlending in the dictionary

  1. onlead
  2. onleading
  3. onleads
  4. onled
  5. onlend
  6. onlending
  7. onlends
  8. onlent
  9. onlest
  10. Onley
  11. Onleys

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