The word 'lend' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to allowing someone to use or borrow something that belongs to you. Example sentence: "I lent my laptop to my friend so she could finish her school project."
Nor did they have enough balls: Fifa had supplied 25 of the new Tango España balls to each participating nation but none of the ones allocated to El Salvador made it as far as the players, who had to ask Hungary to lend them a couple so they could practise before their first match.
It excludes anyone who could lend a modicum of diversity to these debates; who might challenge the status quo on the environment, on devolution, on constitutional change, on free-market economics, on gender politics.
Autocratic leaders across the former Soviet Union have been known to dispatch "quid pro quo" observer missions to each others' elections to lend them legitimacy.
Roux also calls for black pudding, to "lend a similar flavour" to the sauce as the more traditional blood.
When the banks are borrowing at 2% and lending to payday lenders at 7%, which lend to the poor at 5,500%, the bishops are right to call this usury and to say that it is wrong.
Among the celebrities and political figures to lend their support were actresses Juliet Stevenson and Romola Garai, alongside Labour peer Baroness Kennedy QC and Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty.
This work has largely been at the rear of the hospital so, to lend some balance, the front is disgusting.
'light' programme to increase the availability of cash that banks and financial companies have to lend.
The UK needs a working banking sector, because that is how the bulk of our SMEs fund themselves and the best chance of success for the chancellor's credit easing is for it to encourage the banks to lend.
She's the kind of character who could easily lend herself to a long stay.
They also made it more expensive for banks to park money with the ECB – cutting the deposit rate, which was already negative, from -0.1% to -0.2% in the hope of persuading banks to lend more to businesses and consumers.
