lend-lease

English

Alternative forms

Lend-Lease

Noun

lend-lease (uncountable)

(historical) 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.

Translations

(historical) a US help program between 1941 and August 1945

(all borrowings from English)

Armenian: լենդ-լիզ (hy) (lend-liz)
Belarusian: ленд-лі́з m (ljend-líz), лэнд-лі́з m (lend-líz)
Georgian: ლენდ-ლიზი (lend-lizi)
Japanese: レンドリース (rendorīsu)
Russian: ленд-ли́з (ru) m (lend-líz)
Ukrainian: ленд-лі́з m (lend-líz)

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