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Meanings of borrow in English

Portuguese
adoptar
Catalan
adoptar
Spanish
adoptar

To take up (an idea) as one's own.

        adoptar
        Portuguese
        adoptar

        Get temporarily.

              adoptar
              Usage of borrow in English
              1
              But companies and governments need to borrow to expand and support growth.
              Reuters
              2
              To borrow the words of the prime minister herself: enough is enough.
              The Guardian
              3
              Moreover, she refused to allow children to borrow the books they wanted.
              Shadows in the twilight
              4
              I'll borrow another example from my friend Bruce Goldberg: your caloric consumption.
              The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
              5
              Quite another to borrow money to fund a bloated, inept, patronage-driven state.
              The South African
              6
              Merely allow me to borrow her without challenge in your own past.
              For Love Of Evil
              7
              In China, however, many buyers also borrow to cover their down payments.
              Reuters
              8
              I would go to someone's house and ask: can I borrow that?
              The Guardian
              9
              But the euro crisis has made it harder to borrow from abroad.
              Reuters
              10
              They only call on her, however, when they wish to borrow money.
              The new yorker
              11
              Is it fair to borrow another' food culture for one's own ends?
              The Irish Times
              12
              That's why the Clean Energy Project wants to borrow your PC power.
              Wired
              13
              However, at times, the rhetoric appears to borrow heavily from antisemitic tropes.
              The Guardian
              14
              This is a long way to come to borrow books, isn't it?
              IT
              15
              Last year, British government had to borrow £156bn more than it spent.
              BBC
              16
              Kiwirail will borrow seventy five million dollars to buy the new locomotives.
              Radio NZ
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              Spanish
              adoptar
              Borrow through the time
              Borrow across language varieties
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              Common
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