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bor·row

(bŏr′ō, bôr′ō)

v. bor·rowed, bor·row·ing, bor·rows

v.tr.

1. To obtain or receive (something) on loan with the promise or understanding of returning it or its equivalent.

2. To adopt or use as one's own: I borrowed your good idea.

3. In subtraction, to take a unit from the next larger denomination in the minuend so as to make a number larger than the number to be subtracted.

4. Linguistics To adopt (a word) from one language for use in another.

v.intr.

1. To borrow something.

2. Linguistics To adopt words from one language for use in another.

Idiom:

borrow trouble

To take an unnecessary action that will probably engender adverse effects.

[Middle English borwen, from Old English borgian; see bhergh- in Indo-European roots.]

bor′row·er n.

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Noun

borrower - someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent

recipient, receiver - a person who receives something

freeloader - someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others

lender, loaner - someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters

Translations

مُقترض، مُستعير

vypůjčovatel

låner

Benutzer Entleiher

δανειολήπτης

persona que toma algo prestado

emprunteur

kölcsönkérõ

lántakandi

mutuatario

låner låntaker

kto si požičiava

sposojevalec

ödünç/borç alan kimse

借用者

borrower

[ˈbɒrəʊəʳ] N

1. [of money] → prestatario/a m/f
neither a borrower nor a lender be → ni prestes ni pidas prestado

2. (in library) → usuario/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

borrower

[ˈbɒrəʊə^r] n → emprunteur/euse m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

borrower

n → Entleiher(in) m(f); (of capital, loan etc) → Kreditnehmer(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

borrower

[ˈbɒrəuəʳ] n (gen) → chi prende in prestito (Econ) → mutuatario/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

borrow

(ˈborəu) verb

to take (something, often money) temporarily with the intention of returning it. He borrowed a book from the library.

ˈborrower noun

ˈborrowing noun

borrow from: I borrow money from a friend .
lend to: My friend lends money to me / My friend lends me money .

References in classic literature ?

For if you reduce usury to one low rate, it will ease the common borrower, but the merchant will be to seek for money.

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Indeed he argued, and with great show of reason, that it ought to be rather more for one day than for five, inasmuch as the borrower might in the former case be very fairly presumed to be in great extremity, otherwise he would not borrow at all with such odds against him.

Nor did he trouble his borrowers with abstract calculations of figures, or references to ready-reckoners; his simple rule of interest being all comprised in the one golden sentence, 'two-pence for every half-penny,' which greatly simplified the accounts, and which, as a familiar precept, more easily acquired and retained in the memory than any known rule of arithmetic, cannot be too strongly recommended to the notice of capitalists, both large and small, and more especially of money-brokers and bill- discounters.

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The borrower gives me in pledge some raw sugars, on condition that I should sell if repayment were not made within a fixed period.

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"Why should he be so anxious to know the time at which a borrower of money is usually privileged to pay the money back?"

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As a borrower of money he had every quality but one.

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In fact, the Saillards did not know how better to manage their savings than to carry them, five thousand francs at a time, to their notary, Monsieur Sorbier, Cardot's predecessor, and let him invest them at five per cent in first mortgages, with the wife's rights reserved in case the borrower was married!

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Lynde had lent, sometimes never expecting to see it again, came home that night in charge of the borrowers thereof.

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The UAE Central Bank has said that banks should not extend loans with installments that make up more than 50 per cent of a borrower's salary.

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