Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "leen" is om iets vir 'n kort tydjie aan iemand te gee, met die verwagting dat dit teruggestuur word. Dit kan ook beteken om hulp of ondersteuning aan iemand te bied.
In my experience, when banks lend money, they want to have at least two ways of getting their money back.
From the time when the Amadises and Palmerins began to grow popular down to the very end of the century, there is a steady stream of invective, from men whose character and position lend weight to their words, against the romances of chivalry and the infatuation of their readers.
He shaped, sanded, and varnished it himself, even leaving some burnt edges scalloped and slanted to lend it an old-world charm.
We all agreed that our review and recommendations on the project might lend it sufficient credibility to get a better chance at funding.
Three thousand years tends to lend a certain perspective.
Wyatt was convinced the city would lend its support to him when he arrived.
Honour and virtue are the ornaments of the mind, without which the body, though it be so, has no right to pass for beautiful but if modesty is one of the virtues that specially lend a grace and charm to mind and body, why should she who is loved for her beauty part with it to gratify one who for his pleasure alone strives with all his might and energy to rob her of it?
Kallan was more than willing to lend Emma the overcoat along with what blankets they had obtained from Ori, sheltering her somewhat from the elements as they moved out of Upplond into Throendalog.
I was glad we could lend a little moral support, but that was about all we could do in five minutes.
Observe, too, how the emperor turns away, and leaves Don Gaiferos fuming and you see now how in a burst of anger, he flings the table and the board far from him and calls in haste for his armour, and asks his cousin Don Roland for the loan of his sword, Durindana, and how Don Roland refuses to lend it, offering him his company in the difficult enterprise he is undertaking but he, in his valour and anger, will not accept it, and says that he alone will suffice to rescue his wife, even though she were imprisoned deep in the centre of the earth, and with this he retires to arm himself and set out on his journey at once.
