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onlends

onlends is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 onlends

What is onlends the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Onlends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of onlend.

Words near onlends in the dictionary

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

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