different between imprest vs loan

English

Etymology

Prefix form of prest, perhaps after Italian imprestare, or perhaps from a misunderstand of the phrase in prest.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??mp??st/

Noun

imprest (plural imprests)

1. An advance of funds, especially to a government service or employee. [from 16th c.]
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 240:

     Calling on Lacon at the Cabinet Office to deliver the Circus's monthly imprest account for his inspection, he had been astonished to see Sam emerging from his private office, joking easily with Lacon and Saul Enderby of the Foreign Office.

Translations

Verb

imprest (third-person singular simple present imprests, present participle impresting, simple past and past participle imprested)

1. To advance funds on loan.

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See also

• impressed

Anagrams

• mipster, permits, primest

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lo?n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• Homophone: lone

Etymology 1

From Middle English lone, lane, from Old Norse lán, from Proto-Germanic *laihn?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyk?- (“to leave (over)”).

Cognate with Icelandic lán, Swedish lån, Danish lån, German Lehen (“fief”), Dutch leen (“fief”), West Frisian lien, North Frisian leen (“fief; loan; office”), Scots lane, lain, len, Old English l?n. More at lend.

Noun

loan (plural loans)

1. (law, banking, finance) An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.

   Synonyms: loaning, lending

2. (law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).

   Synonym: principal

3. The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.

4. The permission to borrow any item.

Hypernyms

• (something borrowed): bailment

Hyponyms

• (something borrowed): mutuum, commodatum

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

loan (third-person singular simple present loans, present participle loaning, simple past and past participle loaned)

1. (usually double transitive, US, dated in Britain, informal) To lend (something) to (someone).
   • 1820 June 1, William King, in 1820, Letters to James Monroe: President of the United States, from William King,

     In the course of a correspondence that passed between us at this period, he mentioned, to my utter astonishment, the fact of his having loaned Neilson 81000 to buy my bill on Maryland; and stated that he could not proceed to make the payment until Neilson refunded the money.

   • 1992, Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, page 30,

     All the rest—six out of eleven, more than half—were loaned to him.

   • 2015, Joanne M. Flood, Wiley GAAP 2015: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, page 574,

     Upon maturity of the debt, the investment bank returns the loaned shares.

     On the date of issuance, the entity should record the loaned shares at their fair value and recognize them as an issuance cost, with an offset to additional paid-in capital.

Usage notes

• This usage, once widespread in the UK, is now confined to the US (or perhaps parts thereof). The use of loan as a verb is occasionally disapproved of, especially when the object being lent is something other than money; as a consequence, lend is often preferred.

Translations

Further reading

• loan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

See lawn.

Noun

loan (plural loans)

1. (Scotland) A lonnen.

Anagrams

• Anlo, NOLA, Nola, lona, nola

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?n/, [?lo??n]
• Rhymes: -o?n
• Syllabification: lo?an

Noun

loan

1. genitive singular of loka

Anagrams

• laon, olan

Spanish

Verb

loan

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of loar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of loar.

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [lwa?n??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [lwa????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [l???a????]

Noun

(classifier con) loan

1. hen-phoenix