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borrow English

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What does borrow mean?
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borrow Verb

— If you borrow something from someone, you use it and then you give it back to them. Governments need to make it easier for students to borrow money for school. The company has also borrowed heavily from the Boston Federal Reserve Bank - some $1.6 billion last month alone. Can I borrow your car and show my dad I can drive? — If you borrow words or ideas from somebody, you use them in your own writing or speaking. Many people want to throw the war "down the memory hole", to borrow a phrase from Orwell's 1984. The choreographer borrowed a number from Swan Lake for his satirical ballet called Birds in Ballet.

borrow

— verb get temporarily May I borrow your lawn mower? — verb (= take up) take up and practice as one's own

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Topics borrow topics

What do people use borrow to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance

Borrow

Conjugation borrow conjugation

How do you conjugate borrow?

borrow · verb

Examples borrow examples

How do I use borrow in a sentence?

Simple sentences

When we borrow money, we must agree on the conditions.
Can I borrow your scissors?
I will borrow a pen.
You borrow books.
I told Tom Mary wanted to borrow his mandolin.
Can I borrow it?
Do you have an umbrella I could borrow?
Can I borrow a drill from you for a few days?
Can I borrow your chainsaw tomorrow?
Can I borrow three hundred dollars from you?
I need to borrow your umbrella.
I wasn't allowed to borrow it.
May I borrow your dictionary?
May I borrow your pen?
Can I borrow your hair drier?
Can I borrow your eraser for a moment?
Can I borrow your pen for a few minutes?
You may borrow this book as long as you keep it clean.
You can borrow these books from the library for a week.
May I borrow this book?
At this library, you can borrow up to three books at a time.
How long may I borrow this notebook?
We'll borrow some money on the house.
Can I borrow your radio?
Can I borrow your pen?

Movie subtitles

If we wanted to pop over and borrow a cup of sugar, it would take some 700,000 years for us to bring the sugar home.
Pardon me. Can I borrow your phone to watch porn?
Josh, can I borrow a hundred dollars?
Oh, I've decided to write to my sister and borrow her cream two-piece that she wears for parish high days and holidays.
He Sean, I need to borrow your car.
I want to borrow your cap and coat.
May I borrow your opera glasses, please?
My husband had to borrow and beg to make this trip.
And when that's gone, I'll work, I'll beg, I'll borrow, I'll steal.
I couldn't, by any chance, borrow some money from you, could I?
But it doesn't seem right to borrow from a patient.
Well, they probably thought you were trying to borrow some money.
Mind if I borrow this?
No, let's borrow this.
People can get loans here who couldn't borrow 5 cents anywhere else.
I know you borrowed it. But what did you borrow it for?!
Say listen, when you get that money from. -.the toy maker will you borrow a little extra for me?
Could I borrow it for about an hour?
Well, we could borrow a couple from Mrs Simpson.
Eskimos. - Yeah, we borrow these quilts and put some towels round our heads and nobody'd be any the wiser. - We could go and get the waiter.
He can borrow one.
Do you talk the lingo? -No. Maybe they thought you tried to borrow money.
Alfred? - May I borrow your violin?
Okay. Josh, can I borrow a hundred dollars?
I borrow her teddies and she's always using my lipstick.
You might borrow.
They weren't chasing us to borrow a match.
May I borrow your husband?
Strangers come in, expecting to borrow against worthless junk.
We can't starve so we borrow things.
Borrow?
May I borrow him, General?
Can I borrow this loincloth?
Borrow it!
We'll borrow from Epstein.

News and current affairs

To finance its trade deficit, America must borrow from abroad over a billion dollars a day.
Spreads between the interest rate at which America's government could borrow and the interest rates at which America's corporations could borrow widened.
If Europe - particularly the European Central Bank - were to borrow, and re-lend the proceeds, the costs of servicing Europe's debt would fall, creating room for the kinds of expenditure that would promote growth and employment.
Financial systems are bloated by implicit taxpayer guarantees, which allow banks, particularly large ones, to borrow money at interest rates that do not fully reflect the risks they take in search of outsized profits.
Usually, low interest rates lead firms to borrow more to invest more, and greater indebtedness is matched by more productive assets.
Third, improved opportunities to borrow allow one to spend more now, when one is poor, and save more later, when one is rich.
Households are certainly much more able to borrow, thanks to home-equity loans, credit-card balances, and payday loans.
It is one thing to borrow to make an investment, which strengthens balance sheets; it is another thing to borrow to finance a vacation or a consumption binge.
Only businesses that can borrow long-term now, lock in a low real interest rate, and invest in expanding their capacity can make the domestic bet that interest rates will rise.
For the moment, America's ability to borrow vast sums at low interest rates acts like a huge dose of steroids on the economy.
On top of all this, there is a shadow financial system of non-bank financial institutions that, like banks, borrow short and liquid and lend to or invest in longer-term and illiquid assets.
When peasants lack their own saving accounts and collateral, they are unable to borrow from banks to buy seeds, fertilizer, and irrigation.
Households (and countries) that were most prone to spend cannot borrow any more.
To revive growth, others must be encouraged to spend - governments that can still borrow should run larger deficits, and rock-bottom interest rates should discourage thrifty households from saving.
In Africa, very few people borrow money for such purchases.
If that trade gap persists, Greece will have to borrow the full amount from foreign lenders every year in the future, even if the post-default budget deficits could be financed by borrowing at home.
With home prices falling (and set to continue to fall), and with banks uncertain of their financial position, lenders will not lend and households will not borrow.
What religion should teach us is not how to hate, but - to borrow again from Confucius - how to develop societies that look after and welcome the poor, the stranger, and the oppressed.
No country can borrow forever or at least at very high rates.

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