0 past simple and past participle of borrow
1 to get or receive something from someone with the intention of giving it back after a period of time:
2 to put a number into a different column when doing subtraction
Do you have a Birmingham to London train timetable that I could borrow?
You have to sign books out when you borrow them from the library.
He's a bit possessive about his CDs - I wouldn't dare ask to borrow them.
Just because I'm lending you my dress for tonight doesn't mean you can borrow it whenever you want to.
In order to develop a more integrative approach, we borrowed the essence of the gametheoretic apparatus and modified it somewhat liberally.
Liberal feminists borrowed the rhetoric of unjust exclusion and applied it to their own case.
The words of the burlesque's song are cleverly structured to echo the rhymes of the borrowed tune.