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What does borrow mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word borrow? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
  2. To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
  3. (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
  4. (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.
  5. (Upper Midwestern United States, proscribed) To lend.
  6. (double transitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
  7. To feign or counterfeit.
Noun
  1. (golf) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
  2. (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
Noun
  1. (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
  2. (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
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