Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Available for lending: Describes something (typically money, resources, or an item) that is suitable or ready to be loaned to someone else.
   • Capable of being lent: Indicates the inherent quality of an asset that makes it possible to be given temporarily under an agreement for its return.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The bank identified which assets were lendable to increase its liquidity.
  • Not all books in the collection are lendable; some are for reference only.
  • They pooled their lendable capital to fund the startup.

Advanced Usage

• "Lendable funds": Money that a financial institution has available to issue as loans.
  • The central bank's policy increased the amount of lendable funds in the economy.
• "Lendable value": In finance, the portion of an asset's value that can be used as collateral for a loan.
  • The lendable value of the securities was calculated at 70%.

Variants and Related Words

• Lend (verb): To grant the use of something temporarily with the expectation of its return.
  • Can you lend me your pen?
• Loanable (adjective): Often used interchangeably with "lendable," especially in economics, to describe resources available for lending.
  • The loanable funds theory explains interest rates.

Synonyms

• Loanable: Available to be lent.
• Available for loan: Ready to be borrowed.

Antonyms

• Non-lendable: Not available or suitable for lending.
• Restricted: Not freely available for loan.

Adjective

1. available for lending
   • lendable resources