borrow Synonyms
Another word for borrow
• verb (Context 1)
To take and use something belonging to someone else with the intention of returning it.
"Students with a valid library card may check out up to ten books at a time."
• verb (Context 2)
To obtain money from a person, bank, or financial institution under an agreement to pay it back later, typically with interest.
"The small business had to scrounge funds from a local credit union to finance its expansion."
• verb (Context 3)
To adopt and use a word, idea, or artistic style from another language, culture, or person.
"English has continued to adopt vocabulary from dozens of languages around the world."
• verb (Context 4)
To take a unit of value from the next higher denomination column in order to subtract a larger digit from a smaller one (in arithmetic subtraction).
"When subtracting 18 from 42, you must regroup ten from the tens column."
• noun (Context 5)
Soil, gravel, or sand excavated from one location to provide fill material for construction at another site.
"The civil engineers tested the quality of the fill before using it to build the highway embankment."
• noun (Context 6)
In golf, the lateral deviation of a putt caused by the slope or contour of the green.
"She misjudged the break on the eighteenth green and watched her putt roll just past the cup."
Opposites of borrow
The opposite of borrow shifts depending on context. Common opposites include: