to take or receive (something) with the implied or expressed intention of returning it to its owner or the place where it belongs
to get (a sum of money) from a bank, etc, under an arrangement to pay it back, usu with interest
to appropriate or adopt (something) for a temporary period
borrowing prestige from her predecessor
to take (ideas, etc) from somebody else
to introduce (words from another language) into one's own
in arithmetic, to take (one) from the number of the next highest power of ten when the number being subtracted from is less than the number to be subtracted
If you subtract 9 from 43, you have to borrow 1 and take 9 from 13
in executing a stroke in golf, to allow (an amount of deviation from a straight line) to counter the effect of a slope
to borrow something
Live frugally and you won't have to borrow
said of a golf ball: to deviate from a straight line because of the slope of the green
It will borrow from the right
continuing to live in spite of being terminally ill