How to pronounce“borrowing”in English
nounemployees of state and local governments who provide essential services to us uh on a daily basis it's actually hard to imagine a worse Arrangement than
borrowing sums of money that we are never going to be able to pay back from people who provide essential services to us every day um like teachers and
policemen firemen Public Safety officials and other public employees financial markets don't like
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Definitions of “borrowing”
present participle and gerund of borrow
“She is borrowing my pen.”
Shoplifting.
An instance of something being borrowed.
“January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites 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 […]”
A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
“Whilst you would be forgiven for thinking this statement comes straight from the latest UKIP manifesto, it is in fact a quotation from The Anglish Moot, a fan-page promoting the use of the 'Anglish' language — that is, English with all foreign borrowings stripped away.”
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