BORROW


Meaning of BORROW in English

vt to feign or counterfeit.

2. borrow ·noun the act of borrowing.

3. borrow ·noun something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.

4. borrow ·vt to receive; to take; to derive.

5. borrow ·vt to copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.

6. borrow ·vt to receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind;

— the opposite of lend.

7. borrow ·vt to take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower;

— a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.

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