borrow

Definitions

• 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.
• (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
• (arithmetic) 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.
• (double) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
• To feign or counterfeit.
• (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
• (informal) To receive (something) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.