earnest money vs loan

earnest money

noun
  • Money paid as a deposit to show intent to buy or to reserve an item to be purchased; especially, money accompanying an offer to buy real estate. 

loan

noun
  • A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest). 

  • An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use. 

  • A lonnen. 

  • The permission to borrow any item. 

  • The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan. 

verb
  • To lend (something) to (someone). 

How often have the words earnest money and loan occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )