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