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lend-lease

/lend-lees/US // ˈlɛndˈlis //

借用,借贷,借贷通

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war.
    • : the two-way transfer of ideas, styles, etc.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    lend-leased, lend-leas·ing.

    • : to supply as authorized by the Lend-Lease Act.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inlend

Examples

  • Increasingly, criminals actually lease their malware from a group that guarantees their malware against detection.

  • Ironically, as pope, his championing of the poor has given Liberation Theology a new lease on life.

  • In 2008, his monastery was in desperate need of funds and Vreeland decided to lend a hand with his first photography exhibition.

  • His play The Hairy Ape, the agent noted, “could easily lend itself to radical propaganda.”

  • After seeing the film, he also agreed to lend his synthesized voice to the latter portion.

  • He wishes to cultivate it still, and offers to renew the lease for any number of years, and pay the rent punctually.

  • Other orchestra leaders are always writing and begging him to lend them his copies of Oratorios, etc.

  • The rent for which the owner can lease it, emerges simply as a consequence of the existing state of wages and prices.

  • He and his friends obtained the lease, for thirty-one years, of a rival line, which turned out a great financial success.

  • Then he held down a hand to her, bade her set her foot on his, and called with an oath to Rabecque to lend her his assistance.