Meanings
loaning1
plural loanings
- countableuncountableThe granting of a loan.
[…] and the comparison will be made by years, of the maximum weekly shortages (and surplus, if such exists coincidentally) with the ownership of cars and with the loanings of cars.
1952, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics, The Capacity and Capital Requirements of the Railroad Industry, page 89
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of loan
loaning2
plural loanings
- Northern EnglandScotlandUlsterA lane.
She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns.
1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 231
Synonyms & antonyms
noundisposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From loanin, an alternative spelling of the Northern English noun lonnen + -ing.
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Rhymes with loaning
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Cite this entry
loaning. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loaning
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