EGAVE

borrow

About 5.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
  2. verb To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
  3. verb To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
    to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
  4. verb To adopt a word from another language.
  5. verb In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
  6. verb To lend.
  7. verb To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
  8. verb To feign or counterfeit.

Similar words

take up adopt take over lend lending pay debt loan bail resume

Often followed by

money from a the it and some at in

Word family

Borrow George Borrow George Henry Borrow borrowed borrower borrowers borrowing borrows

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