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
To the hawks, the Fed’s drive to pump up banks’ lendable reserves has created a $1.5 trillion bomb with a short fuse.
From BusinessWeek • Aug. 2, 2012
The stock is becoming more difficult to borrow, with 59 percent of the lendable supply out on loan, up from 11 percent a year ago, according to Data Explorers.
From BusinessWeek • May 13, 2011
However, the scalability we wonder about is whether a large portion of books will be made lendable by publishers.
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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