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lend collapse: give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money"; bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program"; have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to; "This story would lend itself well to serialization on television"; "The current system lends itself to great abuse"

mortgagee collapse: the person who accepts a mortgage; "the bank became our mortgagee when it accepted our mortgage on our new home"

pawnbroker collapse: a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security

banker collapse: the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game; someone who owns or is an executive in a bank

accommodation collapse: (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the lens of the eye; the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need; living quarters provided for public convenience; "overnight accommodations are available"; in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality; a settlement of differences; "they reached an accommodation with Japan"

borrowing collapse: the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"; obtaining funds from a lender

belittled collapse: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small"

minimized collapse: reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree

pawn collapse: borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan; (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank; an article deposited as security; leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"

bated collapse: diminished or moderated; "our bated enthusiasm"; "his bated hopes"; held back; "we watched the daring feats of the acrobats with bated breath"

lowered collapse: below the surround or below the normal position; "with lowered eyes"

highway robbery collapse: robbery of travellers on or near a public road; an exorbitant price; "what they are asking for gas these days is highway robbery"

lesser collapse: smaller in size or amount or value; "the lesser powers of Europe"; "the lesser anteater"; of less size or importance; "the lesser anteater"; "the lesser of two evils"

trust company collapse: an organization (usually with a commercial bank) that is engaged as a trustee or fiduciary or agent in handling trust funds or estates of custodial arrangements or stock transfers or related services

clearing house collapse: a central collection place where banks exchange checks or drafts; participants maintain an account against which credits or debits are posted

Mafia collapse: any tightly knit group of trusted associates; a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century; a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia

gambling collapse: the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize); "his gambling cost him a fortune"; "there was heavy play at the blackjack table"

less collapse: (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer; "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less"; (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"; used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "less interesting"; "less expensive"; "less quickly"; comparative of little; "she walks less than she should"; "he works less these days"

press agent collapse: someone employed to arrange publicity (for a firm or a public figure)

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