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To: Starwind
Seeing that you and I are hung-up on the definition of spend, I'll include an edited version below, since your dictionary-link has no listing:

spend [O.E. spendan borrowed < L. expendo or dispendo, to expend, to dispense.] To expend or pay out, as funds or wealth. --v.i. To make disbursements or expenditures.
--Webster's

Note that the word is tied to the notions of "paying out" and "disbursement," both characteristics of a loan. Also please note that this link goes clear back to the word's Latin/Old English roots, including the strict definitions "dispense" and "borrowed."

In sum, and using the common definition, a bank "spends" money when it loans it to you, just as you "spend" it when you pay it back with interest.

72 posted on 08/20/2003 10:53:04 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
In sum, and using the common definition, a bank "spends" money when it loans it to you, just as you "spend" it when you pay it back with interest.

Yes, we disagree on the definition of spend.

73 posted on 08/20/2003 10:55:21 AM PDT by Starwind
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