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present participle and gerund of borrow examples
(slang, crime) Slang term for shoplifting.
countable and uncountable, plural borrowings
An instance of something being borrowed. quotations examples
Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]
January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites
(linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword. examples