Borrow
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:11 ptsWWF:12 pts6 letters
Definition of Borrow
Verb
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over 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.