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[ verb ] get temporarily
Examples "May I borrow your lawn mower?" Used in print (Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)The amount which may be borrowed from the SBA depends_on how much is required to carry_out the intended purpose of the loan . To be eligible to borrow from a Bank_for_Cooperatives , a cooperative must be an association in which farmers act together in processing and marketing farm products , purchasing farm supplies , or furnishing farm business services , and must meet the requirements set_forth in the Farm_Credit_Act_of_1933 , as amended . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)Bankers who had been reluctant to lend without better security than the house itself got that security from the U._S. government ; householders who had been unable to pick_up the burden of short-term high interest mortgages found they could borrow for twenty-five years at 4 per_cent , under government aegis . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)Now , driving the horse and sulky borrowed from Mynheer_Schuyler , he felt as if every bone was topped by burning oil and that every muscle was ready to dissolve into jelly and leave his big body helpless and unable to move . |
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[ verb ] take up and practice as one's own
Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)Moreover , the most artistically successful of the nonfiction films have invariably borrowed the narrative form from the fiction feature . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)He took his glass , clinked it against mine , and said , `` Toujours gai , what_the_hell '' ! borrowing a line from Don_Marquis ' Mehitabel . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)In_short , and to borrow an arboreal phrase , slash_timber . |
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