The word "lending" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb that means to give someone something temporarily with the expectation that it will be returned. For example, "My brother lends me his car whenever I need it".
The prosaic business of lending to business and serving customers delivered lower profits and was done by the banks' drones.
Hume was also savagely attacked by members of his own SDLP, who felt that, in lending credibility to Sinn Fein, he was electorally sabotaging his own party.
Its more impressive beneficiaries – currently the Poet Laureate, Dame Carol Ann Duffy, and Dame Marina Warner – return the compliment, by lending reputational lustre to official partiality and caprice.
Businesses remained starved of funds but lending for home loans quickly recovered.
But in an analogous way Moscow is now lending them support, political and financial, thereby boosting European neo-fascism.
Banks pose the state a particular problem due to the trade-off between risk (for which the commonly applied solution is higher capital) and lending.
Although some of the UK's library authorities do offer ebook lending, many do not, and many publishers have been wary of making their digital titles available for lending, meaning the range of ebooks in libraries is often restricted.
As in high street banking and lending the world over, the computerised box-tick system has replaced the individual.
They realised that actually you can make huge amounts of profit by lending.
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.
"Will the minister therefore tell the House why he has not moved to implement the extension of the public lending right to ebooks, as mandated in section 43 of the Digital Economy Act 2010?" Vaizey told Jarvis in response that "part of the problem with ebooks is that most publishers do not want ebooks lent in libraries.
