(law, banking, finance) An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.

(law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).

The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.

The permission to borrow any item.

(Scotland) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A lonnen.

(usually ditransitive, US, dated and occasionally proscribed in UK, informal) To lend (something) to (someone).