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Borrow
ˈbɒrəʊ
Borrow definitions
verb
borrow
borrowed
borrowing
borrows
- take and use (something belonging to someone else) with the intention of returning it
"he had borrowed a car from one of his colleagues"
take take for oneself help oneself to use as one's own abscond with carry off appropriate commandeer abstract- take and use (money) from a person or bank under an agreement to pay it back later
"to meet this deficit the government has to borrow money"
- take and use (a book) from a library for a fixed period of time
"you could easily have borrowed a book from your local library"
- take (a word or idea) from another language, person, or source and use it in one's own language or work
"the term is borrowed from Greek"
- allow (a certain distance) when playing a shot to compensate for sideways motion of the ball due to a slope or other irregularity
noun
borrow
borrows
- a slope or other irregularity on a golf course which must be compensated for when playing a shot