0 to get or receive something from someone with the intention of giving it back after a period of time: --
1 to put a number into a different column when doing subtraction --
2 to take something from someone with the intention of giving it back after using it: --
3 to take money from a bank or other financial organization with the intention of paying it back over a period of time, usually with interest added on: --
Countries who had borrowed heavily to pay for oil imports were hit hard.
borrow sth from sth This is a way of borrowing money from international financial markets.
borrow from sth If you borrow from a credit card, the interest can be 20%.
Find out how much you can afford to borrow before you decide to buy a house.
He will have to borrow £300 million to make his controversial takeover bid successful.
4 to ask someone to give you money for a period of time, after which you intend to give it back to them: --
First, the intermediation process modeled here has no direct implications for the cost of borrowing to obtain consumption goods.
The final paper, somewhat inconclusively, treats the issue of the extent to which borrowed words "fill gaps" in the existing lexicon.
There is no working definition of the difference between borrowing and code-switching (admittedly a nearly impossible goal), but the examples include both phenomena.
Choreographers borrowed the plots, characters and usually the titles of the original works, copying much of the action scene by scene.
The paper points out that borrowing is optimal in some circumstances.
Many of the ideas used to good effect in computational syntax, most strikingly various versions of feature inheritance, have been borrowed from programming languages.
The role of borrowing in the justification of phonological grammars.
The words of the burlesque's song are cleverly structured to echo the rhymes of the borrowed tune.
