• Lender

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -É›ndÉ™(r)

    Origin

    {1} + -er

    Full definition of lender

    Noun

    lender

    (plural lenders)
    1. One who lends, especially money.
      • Shakespeare, Hamlet, circa 1602, Act 1 scene 3, Polonius speaks http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/2ws2610.txt"Neither a borrower nor a lender be:For loan oft loses both itself and friend;And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."
      • 2013-06-01, End of the peer show, Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

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