borrow

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

borrow UK [ˈbɒr.əʊ] US [ˈbɑːr.oʊ] verb [ borrows borrowing borrowed ]
 
RECEIVE

1. <E > transitive to get or receive something from someone with the intention of giving it back after a period of time
• Could I borrow your bike from (not standard off) you until next week?
• She used to borrow money and not bother to pay it back.
• He borrowed a novel from the library.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Borrowing, lending and debt
2. <E > intransitive or transitive to take money from a bank or financial organization and pay it back over a period of time
• Like so many companies at that time, we had to borrow heavily to survive.
• We could always borrow some money from the bank.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Borrowing, lending and debt
3. transitive to take and use a word or idea from another language or piece of work
• English has borrowed many words from French.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Writing and typing
 
• Can I borrow a couple of bucks?
• Do you have a Birmingham to London train timetable that I could borrow?
• You have to sign books out when you borrow them from the library.
• He's a bit possessive about his CDs - I wouldn't dare ask to borrow them.
• Just because I'm lending you my dress for tonight doesn't mean you can borrow it whenever you want to.
 
MATHEMATICS

4. transitive to put a number into a different column when doing subtraction
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division ↑Calculations and calculating
Idiom: live on borrowed time
Derived: borrower ▪ borrowing

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  adopt, take over, take up
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  lend, loan