Usually means: Temporarily obtaining something from another.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word borrow:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Borrow, borrow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. borrow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. borrow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. borrow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. borrow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Borrow, borrow: Wordnik
  7. borrow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Borrow, borrow: Wiktionary
  9. borrow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. borrow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. borrow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Borrow, borrow: Dictionary.com
  13. borrow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. borrow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Borrow (disambiguation), Borrow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Borrow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. borrow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. borrow: Rhymezone
  19. borrow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. borrow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Borrow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. borrow: Free Dictionary
  23. borrow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. borrow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. borrow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Borrow: bizterms.net
  5. Borrow: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  8. Borrow (disambiguation), borrow: Legal dictionary
  9. Borrow (disambiguation), Borrow: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Borrow (disambiguation), borrow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. borrow: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Borrow: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Borrow: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. borrow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. borrow: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. borrow: Golfer's Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
verb:  To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
verb:  To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
verb:  (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
verb:  (arithmetic) 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.
verb:  (Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, proscribed) To lend.
verb:  (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
verb:  To feign or counterfeit.
verb:  (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
verb:  (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
verb:  (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
verb:  (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
noun:  (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
noun:  (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
noun:  (programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
noun:  (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
noun:  (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
noun:  A surname.

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