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To take (a word or words) into use; to borrow or appropriate from another language, source, etc.; to employ, use.
transitive. Linguistics. To take (a word or phrase) from a foreign language into one's own without (substantially) altering its form; to borrow.
figurative. To render oneself indebted for; to make temporary use of (something not one's own); used, e.g. of temporal possessions, with notion of…