(construction, civil engineering) A pit dug to extract material (such as soil, gravel, or sand) for use at another location.

plural of borrow pit

The principle of incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden found in traditional East Asian garden design.

(linguistics) A word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a later one, but partly reshaped based on later sound changes or by analogy with inherited words in the language. These words occur, for example, in the Romance and the Indo-Aryan languages.

plural of semi-learned borrowing

To acquire something by any means necessary or available.

It is not good to borrow money from anybody, lest you will lose their trust and friendship.

(idiomatic) To claim the honor of another for yourself

Alternative form of rob Peter to pay Paul

(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of borrow