Usually means: Acquiring temporarily from another source.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word borrowing:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. borrowing: Merriam-Webster
  2. borrowing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. borrowing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. borrowing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. borrowing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Borrowing, borrowing: Wordnik
  7. borrowing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. borrowing: Wiktionary
  9. borrowing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. borrowing: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Borrowing, borrowing: Dictionary.com
  12. borrowing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Borrowing (linguistics), Borrowing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Borrowing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. borrowing: Rhymezone
  16. Borrowing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. borrowing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. borrowing: FreeDictionary.org
  19. borrowing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. borrowing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. borrowing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. borrowing: Legal dictionary
  2. borrowing: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. borrowing: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. borrowing: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Borrowing: Sports Definitions

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (slang, crime) Slang term for shoplifting.
▸ noun:  An instance of something being borrowed.
▸ noun:  (linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.

Similar:
adoption, borrowin', blog, purloin, steal, snarf, mortage, bootleg, embezzle, crime, more...

Opposite:
lending, giving, returning, repaying, providing

Types:
loan, mortgage, line of credit, car loan, student loan, personal loan, more...

Phrases:
borrowing costs, borrowing power, borrowing powers, borrowing cost, linguistic borrowing, more...

Adjectives:
foreign, term, external, public, direct, net, heavy, domestic, cultural, private, international



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Similar:
adoption, borrowin', blog, purloin, steal, snarf, mortage, bootleg, embezzle, crime, more...

Opposite:
lending, giving, returning, repaying, providing

Types:
loan, mortgage, line of credit, car loan, student loan, personal loan, more...

Phrases:
borrowing costs, borrowing power, borrowing powers, borrowing cost, linguistic borrowing, borrowing trouble, borrowing base, limitation on subsidiary borrowing, borrowing days, learned borrowing, more...

Adjectives:
foreign, term, external, public, direct, net, heavy, domestic, cultural, private, international



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