Lender

Definition

lend / lend / v ( pt, pp lent / lent /) ၁။ ~ sth (to sb) (က) ငွားသည္။ ေခ်းသည္။ Can you lend me $ 5? I’ll pay you back tomorrow. ❍ I lent that video to John but he never gave it back. ❍ Lend me your pen a minute, will you? (ခ) ေခ်းသည္။ The banks are now lending money at competitive rates of interest. Compare BORROW ၂။ (က) ~ sth (to sth) အားျဖည့္ေပးသည္။ His presence lent the occasion some dignity. ❍ A little garlic lends flavour to a sauce. (ခ) ~ sth to sth ( fml ) (ယံုၾကည္မႈရိွေစရန္၊ ေလးနက္ေစရန္စသည္အတြက္) အေထာက္အကူျပဳသည္။ lend credibility / credence / weight / significance / substance to a story ❍ This news lends support to earlier ruwmours of a ceasefire. ❏ lend an ear (to sb/sth) [ IDM ] နားစိုက္ေထာင္သည္။ ❏ lender n ( finance ) ေငြထုတ္ေခ်းသူ။ Seek help from your mortgage lender before you get too far behind with the payments. Compare BORROWER See also MONEYLENDER ❏ lend (sb) a (helping) hand (with sth) [ IDM ] ကူညီ သည္။ I went over to see if I could lend a hand. ❏ lending n [U] ( finance ) ေငြေခ်းျခင္း။ ေငြေခ်းလုပ္ငန္း။ lending institutions. ❍ Lending by banks and building societies rose by £ 4.9 billion last year. ❏ lending library n (အထူးသျဖင့္ အခလြတ္) ငွားေသာ စာၾကည့္တိုက္။ ❏ lend one’s name to sth [ IDM ] ( fml ) ပါဝင္အားေပး သည္။ She lent her name to many worthy causes. ❏ lend itself to sth [ PHRV ] သင့္ေတာ္သည္။ ေလ်ာ္ကန္သည္။ a novel which lends itself well to dramatization for television.

Examples

1. The local library will lend books for a month without charge.
2. [lend someone something] : She lent me her very expensive coat.
3. [lend something to someone] : Joe lent this car to us for the weekend.
4. Can you lend me £10?
5. Banks are willing to lend large amounts of money to people starting up businesses.
6. [lend something to something] : The secrecy lent an air of intrigue to their planning.
7. [lend something something] : The smile lent his face a certain boyish charm.
8. [lend (your) support] : Aid agencies lend support to refugees by providing blankets and food.
9. [lend (your) assistance] : Then Max arrived to lend his assistance.
10. [lend a (helping) hand] : Patricia is someone who is always ready to lend a helping hand (=help people).