Usually means: Adopting foreign expressions by translation.
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  1. loan translation: Merriam-Webster
  2. loan translation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. loan translation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. loan translation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. loan translation: Vocabulary.com
  6. loan translation: Wiktionary
  7. loan translation: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. loan translation: Dictionary.com
  9. loan translation: Rhymezone
  10. loan translation: FreeDictionary.org
  11. loan translation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. loan translation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loan translation: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (loan translation)

▸ noun:  Synonym of calque.

Similar:
calque, loan formation, backtranslation, version, traduction, metaphrase, translation, overtranslation, transferral, recast, more...

Opposite:
calque, borrowing, loanword, loshift

Types:
calque, loanword, borrowing, more...

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Similar:
calque, loan formation, backtranslation, version, traduction, metaphrase, translation, overtranslation, transferral, recast, more...

Opposite:
calque, borrowing, loanword, loshift

Types:
calque, loanword, borrowing, more...



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