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This word is a verb which means to have temporarily given something to someone, usually with the expectation that it will be returned. For example, "My friend lent me her car while I waited for mine to be repaired."
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lent
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Period of penitence for Christians before Easter.
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Barry Townsley, a stockbroker who lent £1m; Sir David Garrard, a property developer who lent £2.3m; Chai Patel, head of the Priory Clinics, who lent £1.5m; and Sir Gulam Noon, the so-called "curry king", who lent £250,000.
Your banks have lent my country crazy sums of money, way beyond the bounds of caution or common sense.
Among them is musician and social activist Paweł Kukiz, now polling 9%, and behind him on 5% is Janusz Korwin-Mikke, whose party has lent support to Ukip's grouping in the European parliament.
The private arm of the World Bank, which has lent more than $75bn for water and sanitation projects around the world since 1995, has been in secret talks for more than a year with the city's private water company about funding another possible private-public partnership (PPP) scheme.
Two leading candidates for the May 22 poll, and the partner of a third, donated or lent the party tens of thousands of pounds about the time they were selected for safe seats, according to an analysis of Electoral Commission records.
"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.
That's because their pin-up political editor Tom Bradbury has lent it to close pal Prince William so he can edit together all his gap-year videos and DVDs into one very posh home movie.
On one wall of the Graves is a Damien Hirst, lent by Jarvis Cocker to his hometown's museum when he heard about its plight.
Valentine lent me a copy of Georges Bataille's L'Erotisme and carrying that around tipped me over the edge.
The First Czech Russian bank in Moscow has lent the party a whopping 9.4m Euros (£7.4m).
The long Hollywood lineage of films about the FBI bringing rich, unreachable men to justice has lent a distinct movie-like quality to the crumbling of Sepp Blatter and Fifa, from the dawn arrests of accused high-ups at their five-star Zurich hotel, through the criminal confessions of Chuck Blazer, to the still pinch-yourself moment the president announced his fall.
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