Borrowing

What do we mean by borrowing?

Something that is borrowed, especially a word borrowed from one language for use in another. noun

The act of taking or obtaining anything on loan or at second-hand. noun

The act of taking and using as one's own. noun

The thing borrowed. noun

Present participle of borrow. verb

An instance of borrowing something. noun

A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword. noun

The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source noun

Obtaining funds from a lender noun

To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.

To adopt (an idea) as one's own.

To adopt a word from another language.

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.

(Upper Midwestern United States) To lend.

To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).

To feign or counterfeit.

(obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.

To receive (something) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.

Words that are spelled similarly to borrowing:
borrowing, burrowing, sorrowing, borrowin, morrowing, narrowing, borrowings, harrowing, corroding, farrowing, furrowing, borromini, arrowing, browing, reborrowing, cornrowing, morrowind, marrowing.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word borrowing:
borrower, lending, borrow, phonological, privileges, collateral, debt, constraint, borrowed, vocabulary, loans, deficit, terminology, bonds, mortgage, libraries, money, rates, gdp, loan, costs, securities, fiscal, banks, spending, default, asset, heavily, finance, credit, limit, funds, languages, treasury, financing, currency, words, requirement, billion, arabic, budget, fund, concepts, financial, interest, ideas, crisis, library, word, investment, persian, assets, consumption, elements, limits, traditions, cash, pay, net, rate, powers, buy, latin, bank.

Words that rhyme with borrowing:
sorrowing.

Adjectives that are often used to describe borrowing:
foreign, term, external, public, direct, net, heavy, domestic, cultural, private, international, local, further, excessive, lexical, total, extensive, additional, commercial, overseas, much, corporate, massive, internal, federal, linguistic, municipal, scale, temporary, literary, future, wholesale, mutual, selective, over, subnational, non, substantial, reckless, governmental, official, conscious, mere, bank, reciprocal, shortterm, continuous, fresh, sector, indiscriminate, secured, structural, continued, worth, interlibrary, obvious, sovereign, technological, gross, frequent, inflationary, unlimited, outside, semantic, easy, unacknowledged, textual.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective borrowing:
money, constraints, abroad, time, lending, policy, stocks, powers, tea, trouble, financing, the.

Consonant match to borrowing:
burying, berrying, burrawong, bewraying.

Words that sound like borrowing:
borrowing, barking, burying, barring, barging, burrowing, barling, berrying, borrowings, bewraying, parawing, boring, bowering, borking, bargain, brewing, bearing, baring, barfing, bering, braying, barding, barge in, barong, behring, bowring, barbing, bohrium, borean, borium, parking, parting, harrowing, parring, parsing, parching, parrying, parling, parging, boarding, barton, borin, barium, barman, barnum, barham, barmen, berrian, barten, baria, brohan, barken, barson, berrien, barkan, bgm, barchan, barcomb, bereuen, barcan, barcon, bruang, burion, borrows, barros, baryon, baros, barrio, betraying, bellowing, bahrain, berating, barin, bartering, bbm, barreling, baro, baran, bario, barro, berning, berling, berin, barbin, bardin, baroni, bartling, berthing, bar line, bearding, baaing, barracking, bahrein, berging, berming, barai, bardling, barzun, beraining, beshrewing.