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.

(golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant. / (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.

(archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee. / (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.

simple past tense and past participle of borrow

present participle of borrow / (slang, crime) Slang term for shoplifting.

An instance of something being borrowed. / (linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.

plural of false borrowing

Synonym of pseudo-loan

A pseudo-loan. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see false, borrowing.

plural of pseudo-borrowing