Borrowing
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:15 ptsWWF:18 pts9 letters
Definition 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.
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Synonyms & Antonyms
SYNONYMS
adoptuse
ANTONYMS
carrygive backlendreturn