lend
lend
- v bestow a quality on
Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company - v give temporarily; let have for a limited time
I will lend you my car - v 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
- There is no motivation to lend money at low rates when capital preservation (i.
- Prudent bankers are increasingly refusing to lend a deficit-ridden country money that it may not pay back or to finance imports that it cannot afford.
- The corporate world's embrace of the place as a venue for staff meetings and training sessions does seem to lend Second Life a layer of legitimacy.