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What (who) is borrow - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Borrowing; Borrow (disambiguation)
borrow
v.
1) (D; intr., tr.) to borrow from (she borrowed a book from me; they are always borrowing from us)
2) (D; tr.) to borrow from; into (the word was borrowed from English into German)
borrow
(borrows, borrowing, borrowed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you borrow something that belongs to someone else, you take it or use it for a period of time, usually with their permission.
Can I borrow a pen please?...
He wouldn't let me borrow his clothes.
? lend
VERB: V n, V n
2.
If you borrow money from someone or from a bank, they give it to you and you agree to pay it back at some time in the future.
Morgan borrowed ?5,000 from his father to form the company 20 years ago...
It's so expensive to borrow from finance companies...
He borrowed heavily to get the money together.
VERB: V n from n, V from n, V, also V n
3.
If you borrow a book from a library, you take it away for a fixed period of time.
I couldn't afford to buy any, so I borrowed them from the library.
VERB: V n from n
4.
If you borrow something such as a word or an idea from another language or from another person's work, you use it in your own language or work.
I borrowed his words for my book's title...
Their engineers are happier borrowing other people's ideas than developing their own.
VERB: V n, V n
5.
Someone who is living on borrowed time or who is on borrowed time has continued to live or to do something for longer than was expected, and is likely to die or be stopped from doing it soon.
Perhaps that illness, diagnosed as fatal, gave him a sense of living on borrowed time.
PHRASE: V inflects
borrow
v. a.
1.
Take or receive as a loan, get on credit, obtain on trust.
2.
Take, appropriate, adopt, imitate, make use of.
3.
Take on, simulate, dissemble, feign.
Wikipedia
Borrow
Borrow or borrowing can mean: to receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- In finance, monetary debt
- In language, the use of loanwords
- In arithmetic, when a digit becomes less than zero and the deficiency is taken from the next digit to the left
- In music, the use of borrowed chords
- In construction, borrow pit
- In golf, the tendency of a putted ball to deviate from the straight line; see Glossary of golf#B
Examples of use of borrow
1. It‘s cheaper for companies to borrow more to expand, people can borrow for their sundry needs, and so on.
2. Still, corporations are reluctant to borrow money.
3. Often, armed groups borrow from conventional militaries.
4. "Margin calls make it difficult for banks to borrow money, for corporations to borrow money and for homeowners to borrow money," said Robert Nelson, a managing analyst at Thomson Financial.
5. Those problems already make it more expensive for people to borrow money to buy a house or car and for businesses to borrow so they can expand.