Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something that is borrowed, especially a word borrowed from one language for use in another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of taking or obtaining anything on loan or at second-hand.
- noun The act of taking and using as one's own.
- noun The thing borrowed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
borrow . - noun An instance of borrowing something.
- noun linguistics A
borrowed word ,adopted from a foreign language;loanword .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
- noun obtaining funds from a lender
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Examples
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The so-called bonds that will be used to “repay” Northern Rock's £25 billion in borrowing from the Bank of England will be guaranteed by the Treasury and will therefore be indistinguishable from any other government borrowing.
Archive 2008-01-01 Not a sheep 2008
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The term borrowing is not usually applied to words with roots from other languages like Latin and Greek.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Can I Borrow a Cup of Déjà Vu? 2009
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The term borrowing is not usually applied to words with roots from other languages (like Latin and Greek).
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Here he gives what I call borrowing the term from Steve Roach the tallest pygmy theory of America in the world economy.
Linkfest, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Here he gives what I call borrowing the term from Steve Roach the tallest pygmy theory of America in the world economy.
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Here he gives what I call borrowing the term from Steve Roach the tallest pygmy theory of America in the world economy.
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Here he gives what I call borrowing the term from Steve Roach the tallest pygmy theory of America in the world economy.
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In these notes, the borrowing is the most direct, often corresponding word for word.
Introduction 2002
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We can continue with short-term borrowing, which is very expensive.
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"That's what you call borrowing a lover for ten minutes, is it?" said
La Vendée Anthony Trollope 1848
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