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loan

 
 
/ləʊn/ noun

Translation

[C] money that someone has borrowed
borç para, ödünç para, kredi
a bank loan a student loan He repaid the loan within two years.1408
be on loan If something is on loan, someone is borrowing it.
ödünç alınmış
Both paintings are on loan from the city museum.1408
(Definition of loan noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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