onlend

English

Etymology

on- +‎ lend

Verb

onlend (third-person singular simple present onlends, present participle onlending, simple past and past participle onlent)

1. To loan out something that has been borrowed.
   • 1992, Prabhu Ghate, Arindam Das-Gupta, Informal finance: some findings from Asia, page 185:

     A country which has experimented with this approach in recent years is Sri Lanka (Sanderatne 1989) where NGOs not only borrow and onlend directly but also give guarantees to the banks (although these are kept hidden from borrowers) or sometimes merely their "approval" to a loan, and assist in its recovery.

   • 2004, Armine Khachatryan, Mr. David A. Grigorian, Grigor Sargsyan, Exchange Rate, Money, and Wages: What is Driving Prices in Armenia?, →ISBN:

     Availability of credit boosts nominal aggregate demand by changing volume of liquidity available to banks, which the latter then onlend.

   • 2011, Armendariz Beatriz, Labie Marc, The Handbook Of Microfinance, →ISBN, page 112:

     Some studies have found clients use microcredit for money lending. Instead of investing in a so-called productive activity or covering a family expense, clients onlend to their entourage, often with interest. MFIs antagonistic to usurers naturally condemn such practices. In our opintion, however, onlending should not be automatically judged as a digression or anomaly of the system, but rather a natural (even rational) outcome.

Anagrams

• Nolden