Definition of borrow

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Borrow (n.) Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.

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Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch..
Unborrowed :: Unborrowed (a.) Not borrowed; being one's own; native; original.
Pawnor :: Pawnor (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
Repay :: Repay (v. t.) To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced..
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money..
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..
Mutuation :: Mutuation (n.) The act of borrowing or exchanging.
Replace :: Replace (v. t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed..
Borrowing :: Borrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Borro.
Borrow :: Borrow (n.) Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
Borrow :: Borrow (n.) The act of borrowing.
Use :: Use (v. t.) The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
Return :: Return (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis..
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..
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To receive; to take; to derive.
Shin :: Shin (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank..
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..
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars..
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..
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