"lending" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lendings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "lending (countable and uncountable, plural lendings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "floor plan lending"
        },
        {
          "word": "lending hand"
        },
        {
          "word": "lending library"
        },
        {
          "word": "peer-to-peer lending"
        },
        {
          "word": "securities lending"
        },
        {
          "word": "stock lending"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71",
          "text": "Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The action of, or an instance of the action of the verb to lend."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
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        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lending"
}

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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "lend"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of lend"
      ],
      "id": "en-lending-en-verb-bLDkI2G5",
      "links": [
        [
          "lend",
          "lend#English"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lending"
}

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  "categories": [
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "floor plan lending"
    },
    {
      "word": "lending hand"
    },
    {
      "word": "lending library"
    },
    {
      "word": "peer-to-peer lending"
    },
    {
      "word": "securities lending"
    },
    {
      "word": "stock lending"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lendings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71",
          "text": "Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The action of, or an instance of the action of the verb to lend."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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          "action"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lending"
}

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    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "lend"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of lend"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lend",
          "lend#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "lending"
}