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Etymology 1
Verb
loaning
- present participle and gerund of loan
Noun
loaning (countable and uncountable, plural loanings)
- The granting of a loan.
1952, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics, The Capacity and Capital Requirements of the Railroad Industry, page 89:[…] 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.
Etymology 2
From loanin, an alternative spelling of the Northern English noun lonnen + -ing.
Noun
loaning (plural loanings)
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ulster) A lane.
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:She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns.
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