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borrow
1[ bor-oh, bawr-oh ]
verb (used with object)
- to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent:
Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
- to use, appropriate, or introduce from another source or from a foreign source:
to borrow an idea from the opposition;
to borrow a word from French.
Synonyms: , , , , ,
- Arithmetic. (in subtraction) to take from one denomination and add to the next lower.
verb (used without object)
- to borrow something:
Don't borrow unless you intend to repay.
- Nautical.
- to sail close to the wind; luff.
- to sail close to the shore.
- Golf. to putt on other than a direct line from the lie of the ball to the hole, to compensate for the incline or roll of the green.
Borrow
2[ bor-oh, bawr-oh ]
noun
- George, 1803–81, English traveler, writer, and student of languages, especially Romani.
borrow
1/ ˈɒəʊ /
verb
- to obtain or receive (something, such as money) on loan for temporary use, intending to give it, or something equivalent or identical, back to the lender
- to adopt (ideas, words, etc) from another source; appropriate
- not_standard.to lend
- golf to putt the ball uphill of the direct path to the hole
- intr golf (of a ball) to deviate from a straight path because of the slope of the ground
noun
- golf a deviation of a ball from a straight path because of the slope of the ground
a left borrow
- material dug from a borrow pit to provide fill at another
- living on borrowed time
- living an unexpected extension of life
- close to death
Borrow
2/ ˈɒəʊ /
noun
- BorrowGeorge (Henry)18031881MEnglishTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: travellerWRITING: writer George ( Henry ). 1803–81, English traveller and writer. His best-known works are the semiautobiographical novels of Gypsy life and language, Lavengro (1851) and its sequel The Romany Rye (1857)
Usage
Derived Forms
- ˈǰǷɱ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ǰ۴Ƿ·· adjective
- ǰ۴Ƿ· noun
- ԴDz·ǰ۴Ƿɱ adjective
- non·ǰ۴Ƿ· noun
- v·ǰ۴Ƿ verb
- ܲ·ǰ۴Ƿɱ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of borrow1
Word History and Origins
Origin of borrow1
Idioms and Phrases
- borrow trouble, to do something that is unnecessary and may cause future harm or inconvenience.
More idioms and phrases containing borrow
In addition to the idiom beginning with borrow , also see beg, borrow, or steal ; on borrowed time .Example Sentences
Trump's clash with the Fed is ostensibly rooted in differences over where the bank should fix its key interest rate, which plays an influential role shaping borrowing costs for credit cards, mortgages and other loans.
Those unworn prom dresses were the first to grace the rails at Stroud Community Costumes, which is now in its third year and has more than 100 dresses for teenagers to borrow.
It is one major pillar of his economic agenda, as is a cut in interest rates, aimed at reducing the cost of borrowing for Americans.
Steep increases in borrowing costs and inflation rising are also set to hit UK growth, the IMF said.
Much of that has to do with the way he holds hope in one hand and fatalism in the other, but Cassian borrows plenty of sorrow from the people surrounding him.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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