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Definition of Lender
1. Noun. Someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters.
Generic synonyms: Investor
Specialized synonyms: Pawnbroker, Loan Shark, Moneylender, Shylock, Usurer
Antonyms: Borrower
Derivative terms: Lend
Definition of Lender
1. n. One who lends.
Definition of Lender
1. Noun. One who lends, especially money. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lender
1. one that lends [n -S] - See also: lends
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lender
Literary usage of Lender
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Law Dictionary: Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States by John Bouvier (1843)
"In the civil law, the first obligation on the part of the lender, ... The lender
is obliged, by the civil law, to reimburse the borrower the extraordinary ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"HOLDEN, J. Mrs. LF McCroskey (hereinafter called the assured) executed to the
Security Investment Company (hereinafter called the lender) three promissory ..."
3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"He must, as a general rule, return it to the lender; Edson v. Weston, 7 Cow. ...
The lender may terminate the loan at his pleasure; 9 East 49; Putnam v. ..."
4. The Civil Code of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1872)
"For such expenses he is entitled to compensation from the lender, who may, ...
The lender of a thing for use must indem- lender nify the borrower for damage ..."
5. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and by Joseph Story (1846)
"In the next place, as to the obligations on the part of the lender. These, as
the nature of a gratuitous loan would naturally lead us to presume, are few, ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1845)
"When such consent has been given, the lender will be held liable for the additional
risks which he has assumed, and will endanger his loan. ..."
7. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"Abolish the money-lender, and the general body of cultivators would have nothing
to depend upon ... The money-lender deals chiefly in grain and in specie. ..."
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