borrow

IPA: bˈɑroʊ

(golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
(construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
(programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
(archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
(archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
A surname.

To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
(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.
(Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, proscribed) To lend.
(ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
To feign or counterfeit.
(obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
(informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
(informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
(golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.

Examples of "borrow" in Sentences

Barney had called to borrow money.
Is wanderlust actually a borrowing
They borrowed to fund future business expansion.
His skill at borrowing money saved him from indigence.
You are welcome to borrow the computer for use here if you wish.
He had borrowed money from his in laws to help with the payroll of the band.
Lamprey and Spitchcock enter and ask to borrow some money, Dampit denies them.
I had to borrow some stipends to be able to get to the bank and sort the money.
When there isn't enough tax money to cover outlays, the government must borrow.
Congress did nothing to stanch the meltdown in 2008 except borrow and print money at unprecedented rates.