lendable
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of lendable
Example Sentences
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Soon the banks were flush with lendable funds.
From The Guardian • May 8, 2013
Short sellers have borrowed 82 percent of the company’s lendable supply, meaning there is limited equity available for short sellers to bet against.
From BusinessWeek • Jun. 3, 2011
Short sellers have borrowed 82 percent of the company’s lendable supply, meaning there’s limited equity available for short sellers to bet against.
From BusinessWeek • Jun. 3, 2011
My belief is that some publishers will embrace this try-before-you-buy sharing model and make the majority of their collections lendable, but we’ve also seen Harper Collins take a firm stance against commercial book lending.
From Forbes • Mar. 2, 2011
The lendable money among them is chiefly that of orphans and wards in the hands of executors and guardians, and that which the farmer lays by till he has enough for the purchase in view.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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