Definition of borrow

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Borrow (v. t.) To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.

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Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars..
Repay :: Repay (v. t.) To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced..
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.
Return :: Return (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money..
Latinize :: Latinize (v. i.) To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin.
Borrowed :: Borrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Borro.
Usury :: Usury (v. t.) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow..
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To receive; to take; to derive.
Succoteague :: Succotash (n.) Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.
Replace :: Replace (v. t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed..
Mutuary :: Mutuary (n.) One who borrows personal chattels which are to be consumed by him, and which he is to return or repay in kind..
Bond :: Bond (n.) An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond..
Borrow :: Borrow (n.) The act of borrowing.
Headborrow :: Headborrow (n.) The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder..
Rubato :: Rubato (a.) Robbed; borrowed.
Creance :: Creance (v. i. & t.) To get on credit; to borrow.
Use :: Use (v. t.) The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
Terza Rima :: Terza rima () A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours..
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend..
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