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The correct spelling is borrowing.
How to pronounce borrowing
verb
Say it like: Bor-row-ing
The correct spelling is borrowing. To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. For example: "to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another"
Usage Examples
“to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another”
“Can I borrow a sheet of paper?”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- 2.To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.
- 3.To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- 4.To adopt a word from another language.
- 5.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.
noun
- 1.An instance of something being borrowed.
- 2.A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
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