[ UK /bˈɒɹə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɑˌɹoʊ/ ]
VERB
  1. take up and practice as one's own
  2. get temporarily
    May I borrow your lawn mower?
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How To Use borrow In A Sentence

  • Stated income loans only deserve the moniker "liar loans" because they were abused by banks and given to borrowers who lacked the income to qualify full doc. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • They had to make do with kitchen tuffets, orange boxes, a piano stool and a rocking chair borrowed from next door.
  • Initially von Leeb, using troops borrowed from von Bock, was able to mount a concerted attack both on the defensive positions of the southern suburbs and the area north of the main rail line to Moscow, their objective being the historic village now a suburb of Schlüsselburg, right on Lake Ladoga. Deathride
  • He ran up massive debts borrowing from loan sharks.
  • Interest rates would then rise as the central bank increased its discount rate to discourage borrowing and the demands for legal tender.
  • These two transaction costs discourage foreign investment and borrowing. International Finance: The markets and financial management of multinational business.
  • It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors.
  • Mortgage brokers report that borrowers increasingly want the security of knowing how much their mortgage repayments will cost for the next decade. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bigger discounts on equity and debt issuance to get them away risks seeing investment cut, borrowing reduced and jobs lost. Times, Sunday Times
  • He'd borrowed the Chamberlains ' army-surplus Humvee on the off chance that Cyberdyne could identify him, and Sarah, by their vehicle. T2: INFILTRATOR
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