Associations to the word «Borrowing»
Noun
- Banking
- Cost
- Credit
- Linguist
- Privilege
- Suffix
- Linguistics
- Noun
- Constraint
- Diffusion
- Revenue
- Budget
- Rate
- Inflection
- Idiom
- Offset
- Financier
- Reliance
- Privatization
- Maturity
- Scenery
- Latin
- Tax
- Bankruptcy
- Crunch
- Deposit
- Bank
- Syntax
- Appropriation
- Syllable
- Devel
- Pronoun
- Sector
- Paying
- Prefix
- Spelling
- Transaction
- Crisis
- Interest
- Sum
- Shamanism
- Lan
- Romanian
- Purchasing
- Portfolio
- Plural
- Riff
- Persian
- Cree
- Shelton
- Expense
- Pho
- Tamil
- Contact
- Powers
- Motif
- Metaphor
- Inheritance
- Prestige
- Purchase
- Raise
- Premium
- Limit
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
BORROWING, verb. Present participle of borrow
BORROWING, noun. An instance of borrowing something.
BORROWING, noun. (linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
Dictionary definition
BORROWING, noun. The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent".
BORROWING, noun. Obtaining funds from a lender.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.