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borrowed

/ˈbɔɹoʊd/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
  2. To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.
  3. To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
  4. To adopt a word from another language.
  5. In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
  6. (Upper Midwestern United States) To lend.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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