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lend-lease

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

Syllables
lend-lease
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom (and British Commonwealth), Free France, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.

Uncountable

Usage

Synonyms

lease-lend

Questions

What does lend-lease mean?
A program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom (and British Commonwealth), Free France, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.

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