borrowing
Meaning of borrowing
verb
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
- To adopt a word from another language.
- 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.
- (Upper Midwestern United States) To lend.
- To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- To feign or counterfeit.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To receive (something) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
Can I borrow a sheet of paper?
- An instance of something being borrowed.
- A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
Information about borrowing
- The plural form of borrowing is: borrowings.
- Languages in which borrowing is used:
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Hyphenation of borrowing
bor-row-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- borrowing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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Words that rhyme with borrowing
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