Loan (disambiguation)
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A loan is a financial instrument. Loan may also refer to:
- Analogous concepts
- Borrowing, various senses
- Loan (sports), a player being allowed to play for another club without signing a contract
- Interlibrary loan, a user of one library borrowing books, etc. that are owned by another library
- Linguistics:
- Loanword, a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation
- Loan translation, a term in one language translated word-for-word from the term in another language
- Unrelated concepts
- Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Vietnamese general
- Trần Loan, Vietnamese-American actress
- Loan, County Antrim, a townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
- Loans, South Ayrshire, Scotland