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      borrow
      noun
      (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 Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
      A surname.
      (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
      (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
      verb
      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.
      (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
      To feign or counterfeit.
      (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.
      (Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
      (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
      Synonyms for borrow
      lendvadoptv
      Words related to borrow
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