borrowing

Speech parts

1. borrowing - Noun

2. borrowing - Verb

Meaning

of Borrow

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

adoption take advance appropriate credit debt adopt acquire loan steal hire lease lend borrow piracy

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Antonyms

miss out provide give returning decline

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Hypernyms

dealing transaction appropriation dealings

Hyponyms

naturalization pawn misappropriation crossover naturalisation

Phrases with the word

borrowing rate borrowing rates borrowing allowance commercial borrowing bank borrowing english language borrowing

Examples

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. Henrik Ibsen

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. Michel de Montaigne

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

At borrowing cousin german, at repaying son of a whore. French Proverb

Borrowing is like a wedding, repaying is like mourning. Swahili Proverb

Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

borrowee borrower borrower's card borrowing allowance borrowing arrangement borrowing card