borrowing
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]borrowing
- present participle and gerund of borrow
- She is borrowing my pen.
- (slang, crime) Slang term for shoplifting.
Noun
[edit]borrowing (countable and uncountable, plural borrowings)
- An instance of something being borrowed.
- January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites
- Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]
- January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites
- (linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]loanword — see loanword