Used in a Sentence

loans

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for loans.

Editorial note

Financial innovation to allow consumers and installers to pay for panels over time (PPA, leases, loans, etc.).

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of loans gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

The permission to borrow any item.

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for loans.

noun

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

noun

The permission to borrow any item.

noun

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

noun

(Scotland, Northern England) An area of uncultivated ground near a village or farmhouse.

Example sentences

1

Financial innovation to allow consumers and installers to pay for panels over time (PPA, leases, loans, etc.).

2

Many world-changing industries have not needed $10^8 loans or $5,000 per-unit consumer subsidies to take off.

3

Any business in good financial condition can obtain loans easily, especially in the current economy.

4

All of these have had extraordinary subsidies in terms of loans, grants, tax breaks, etc.

5

Solyndra, A123 and Fisker Automotive all were recipient of government loans or grants, yet for various reasons are not around today.

6

But with millenials, they're happy if they can take their 6 figure student loans and find any job at all, and a pension is a bizarre concept from a foreign world.

7

You're not charging interest for loans so from the customer's point of view, it can be taken as a break even.

8

I do realize that and am fairly familiar with how the cycle works, largely fueled by pay-day loans.

9

If demand increases they make more money which can pay for upgrades directly or in the case of large shifts pay down loans.

10

Truly the US hasn't been the same since the government paid off all overly large student loans, irresponsibly spent credit card balances, desperately sought payday loans, and other avoidable, life-destroying debt.

11

I eat out, drink, do stuff on weekends and pay my school loans and bills.

12

I know of loans and mortgages making $100+ per score, but not per click.

Quote examples

1

How about if they wrote software with a single criteria for loans, and that criteria was "don't lend to black people"?

2

And college loans are just taxation by the back door - with the difference that instead of a graduate tax paid to the government, you pay a loan "tax" to the shareholders of the loan fund.

3

I could point out, as others have, that he knows better than you do what's "best for the company"; that people who are under financial stress have been proven to be significantly worse at intellectual tasks; that by erasing his employees' worries about rent and student loans and feeding the kids, he could be dramatically increasing their productivity and thus improving the company's bottom line in the long run.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use loans in a sentence?

Financial innovation to allow consumers and installers to pay for panels over time (PPA, leases, loans, etc.).

What does loans mean?

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

What part of speech is loans?

loans is commonly used as noun.