BORDERLINE


Meaning of BORDERLINE in English

I. adjective

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■ NOUN

case

A borderline case , and then deindustrialization had pushed him over the edge.

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a borderline student

Caitlin's grades are borderline . She'll have to work harder.

In borderline cases we look at a student's class work to decide the final exam result.

It was a borderline decision whether to send him to prison or not.

Johnson's arguments range from ridiculous to borderline slander.

Lower rates can help some borderline borrowers qualify for loans.

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A borderline case, and then deindustrialization had pushed him over the edge.

Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory.

II. noun

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the borderline between affection and love

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As far as he was concerned, there was no longer a borderline .

For more demanding purposes still more is required, and it is often hard to decide just where to fix the borderline .

Gilsland, near Lanercost Abbey, was only fifteen miles from the borderline at Kirkandrews.

One could answer this by suggesting that here we are on the borderline between social and physiological laws.

The communal borderline between Chouilly and Cramant slices through the middle of these slopes, the higher vines belonging to Chouilly.

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