When people borrow money from a bank they pay back the same amount over a number of months or years plus an added amount that is called interest. He borrowed money from the bank to buy the car.
The meaning of BORROW is to receive with the implied or expressed intention of returning the same or an equivalent. How to use borrow in a sentence.
BORROW meaning: 1. to get or receive something from someone with the intention of giving it back after a period of…. Learn more.
The word borrow means to take something and use it temporarily. You can borrow a book from the library, or borrow twenty bucks from your mom, or even borrow an idea from your friend.
- to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: to borrow a pencil. 2. to appropriate or introduce from another source or from a foreign source: to borrow a word from French. 3. to take or adopt as one's own: to borrow an idea. 4. (in subtraction) to take from one denomination and add to the next lower.
Definition of borrow verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
bor row er, n. [countable][Big borrowers won't get a tax break.] Compare borrow and lend. One way to keep the meanings distinct is to think of borrow as "take,'' while lend is "give.'' So you can borrow something you don't have, and you can lend something you do have.
If you borrow something such as a word or an idea from another language or from another person's work, you use it in your own language or work. I borrowed his words for my book's title.