单词 | reborrow |
释义 | reborrowv. transitive. To borrow back again; to borrow once more. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1633 Bp. H. King On Death Dr. Donne in J. Donne Poems 374 Nor is't fit Thou, who didst lend our Age such summes of wit, Shoulds't now re-borrow from her bankrupt Mine, That Ore to Bury Thee, which once was Thine. 1742 J. T. Atkyns Rep. Cases Chancery (1767) II. 404 It is not in the nature of the thing possible to suppose that the same person wanting to reborrow could replace the first money lent. 1806 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 135 For your specimens I will re-borrow and transcribe an ode or two of Stevens. 1863 W. E. Gladstone Financial Statem. 393 We shall ask the House to intrust us with power to reborrow that money. 1935 M. S. Serjeantson Hist. Foreign Words in Eng. 261 Often, also, a word which was adopted from Old French is, either in Middle English or later, reborrowed from Latin. 1974 J. D. MacDonald Dreadful Lemon Sky (1975) vii. 118 He headed on out again after reborrowing the car keys. 2007 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 25 Sept. (Features) 22 The finance companies borrow on the short-term market and lend against long-term commitments. They must reborrow regularly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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