When people or organizations such as banks lend you money, they give it to you and you agree to pay it back at a future date, often with an extra amount as interest.

If you lend something that you own, you allow someone to have it or use it for a period of time.

If you lend your support to someone or something, you help them with what they are doing or with a problem that they have.

If something lends itself to a particular activity or result, it is easy for it to be used for that activity or to achieve that result.

If something lends a particular quality to something else, it adds that quality to it.