lender

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to lend + -er

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lender (plural lenders)

  1. One who lends, especially money.
    • Shakespeare, Hamlet, circa 1602, Act 1 scene 3, Polonius speaks [1]
      "Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
      For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
      And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

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