BORROW


Meaning of BORROW in English

verb

1 money/things

ADVERB

▪ heavily

He ~ed heavily to set the company up.

PREPOSITION

▪ from

She ~ed some money from her mother.

▪ off ( informal , esp. BrE )

I ~ed £50 off my mum.

Can I ~ some coffee off you?

2 ideas, etc.

ADVERB

▪ freely

PREPOSITION

▪ from

His designs ~ freely from the architecture of ancient Egypt.

Borrow is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ book , ↑ capital , ↑ car , ↑ clothes , ↑ copy , ↑ fund , ↑ money , ↑ pen , ↑ pencil , ↑ phrase , ↑ sum , ↑ term , ↑ terminology , ↑ word

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .