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UK [ˈbɒrəʊ] / US [ˈbɔroʊ] verb
Word forms "borrow":
present tense I/you/we/they borrow he/she/it borrows present participle borrowing past tense borrowed past participle borrowed
Collocations:
If you borrow something, someone gives it to you and you agree to give it back: Please may I borrow your umbrella? ♦ He borrowed an umbrella from his friend. If you lend something, you give it to someone else and they agree to give it back to you: Could you lend me your umbrella? ♦ She lent me her umbrella.
1) [transitive] to receive and use something that belongs to someone else, and promise to give it back to them later

Can I borrow your calculator?

borrow something from someone/something:

I borrowed a camera from Alex.

a) [intransitive/transitive] to borrow money, especially from a bank, and agree to pay it back at a particular time. Money that you borrow is called a loan

We borrowed £20,000 to start up the business.

borrow heavily:

He'd borrowed heavily to pay for the car.

b) [transitive] to borrow books from a library and agree to take them back at a particular time
2) [intransitive/transitive] to use an idea, method, phrase etc that was first used by another person or in another place or situation
borrow something from someone/something:

His speech was, to borrow a phrase from Shakespeare, "full of sound and fury".

English is full of words that have been borrowed from other languages.

borrow freely/heavily:

His designs borrow freely from ancient Egyptian art.

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(living) on borrowed time= be on borrowed time — likely to fail or die very soon

The government is living on borrowed time.


English dictionary. 2014.

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