单词 | borrower |
释义 | borrowern. 1. One who takes a thing on security or on credit. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > borrowing > [noun] > borrower borrowerc1440 mutuary1839 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > borrower borrowerc1440 loanee1832 shinner1840 society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > debtor debtorc1290 yielder1340 borrowerc1440 ower?c1475 debitor1483 redevable1502 creditee1541 Dr.1663 ticker1753 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 44 Borware [1499 borower], mutuator, sponsor. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 75 Neither a borrower nor a lender be. View more context for this quotation 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 15 Here are both to the Lender and Borrower great Advantages. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. iv. 435 Sober people are universally preferred, as borrowers . View more context for this quotation 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 314 The borrower should be under no obligation to repay either capital or interest. 2. transferred and figurative. One who adopts a thing, uses it temporarily, or takes it at second-hand. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > want of originality > one who derives from a source deriver1613 borrowera1616 derivator1652 traducer1670 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 27 I must become a borrower of the Night, For a darke houre, or twaine. View more context for this quotation 1751 J. Harris Hermes iii. v. 408 We Britons in our time have been remarkable borrowers, as our multiform Language may sufficiently shew. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma vii. 207 He..would not have become thus a borrower from Jesus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1440 |
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