(v. t.) To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend.
(v. t.) To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.
(v. t.) To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.
(v. t.) To feign or counterfeit.
(v. t.) To receive; to take; to derive.
(n.) Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
(n.) The act of borrowing.
Example Sentences:
(1) But in 2017, to borrow another phrase from across the pond, there simply is no alternative.
(2) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
(3) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
(4) It is borrowed from the UN, where it normally hangs outside the security council chamber.
(5) "I have tried to borrow the money, but it was simply impossible."
(6) There is a European Investment Bank, a Nordic Investment Bank and many others, all capitalised by states or groups of states for the purpose of financing mandated projects by borrowing in the capital markets.
(7) Super City have Gone Holistic, to borrow the buzzword they introduced after Pellegrini had replaced Mancini.
(8) Government borrowing has hit a record high for a September.
(9) They also dismiss those who suggest that the current record-low interest rates mean countries could safely stimulate growth by raising their borrowing levels higher: Economists simply have little idea how long it will be until rates begin to rise.
(10) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
(11) Markets reacted calmly on Friday to the downgrade by Moody's of 16 European and US banks, with share prices steady after the reduction in credit ratings, which can push up the cost of borrowing for banks which they could pass on to customers.
(12) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(13) Threadneedle Street has shaved 0.75 points off borrowing costs in but has not moved since April and with rising energy bills likely to push inflation close to 5% in the coming months is thought more likely to raise bank rate than cut it when the Bank meets this week.
(14) Alternatively, if your mortgage has been going for a few years – and so a reasonable amount of capital has been repaid, you may be able to borrow back up to the value of the original mortgage.
(15) Imagine the uproar if a Labour chancellor had planned to borrow another £150bn to invest in jobs, infrastructure, training, childcare and house-building.
(16) On Thursday, Dutton had scaled his language back, instead using a phrase to describe Labor’s policy borrowed from former prime minister, Tony Abbott.
(17) However, borrowers looking for new fixed rate deals or homeowners with mortgages linked to money market rates will not necessarily find their mortgage rate decreasing".
(18) The eurozone's 17 finance ministers began crisis talks in Brussels on Monday night "to stop the rot" with Italian bond yields – the country's cost of borrowing – hitting a new peak of 6.69%, threatening to crash the euro system, and political leaders from virtually all countries outside Germany lining up to demand full-scale ECB intervention.
(19) Techniques borrowed for the correction of congenital craniofacial deformities and acute traumatic reconstruction have improved the quality of secondary post-traumatic orbital reconstruction.
(20) A new website aims to help people reconnect with their neighbours through a lending and borrowing scheme.
Morrow
Definition:
(n.) Morning.
(n.) The next following day; the day subsequent to any day specified or understood.
(n.) The day following the present; to-morrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labor has signalled that it will pursue the Coalition government over its appointment of Bill Morrow to run Australia’s largest national infrastructure project, given that the new NBNCo chief executive is named in current legal proceedings in the United States.
(2) Displacement isotherms for amidephrine, benoxathian, oxymetazoline, phentolamine and WB 4101 were biphasic and were consistent with the presence of both alpha 1A- and alpha 1B-adrenoceptor subtypes as described by Morrow & Creese (1986) and Han et al.
(3) Morrow, a sociologist, aruges that Jones is morally and legally obligated to intervene to protect patients and the integrity of the medical profession.
(4) But Morrow has defended his bill against charges that it will not halt prostitution either in the region or on the island.
(5) The incidence of murine primitive (stem) cells with the ability to repopulate irradiated bone morrow stroma is similar to that of cells able to repopulate the hemopoietic system of potentially lethally irradiated mice.
(6) To assess the impact of left ventricular septal myectomy (Morrow procedure) performed for obstructive hypertrophic subaortic stenosis on co-existing mitral regurgitation, we examined the preoperative and postoperative left ventriculograms of 35 patients (13 of them women) who underwent left ventricular septal myectomy alone or with concomitant operation.
(7) Russia’s nightmare is that what happened in Iraq and Libya, with regimes forcibly changed without great thought for the morrow, will be replicated in Syria .
(8) In comparative trials, the number of spores retained by the Morrow Brown trap were similar in the case of larger spores such as Alternaria (102%), rather higher in the case of grass pollen (136%) and considerably higher (166--201%) for very small spores such as Sporobolomyces and Tilletiopsis.
(9) The new King will hold the Accession Council at St. James's Palace to-morrow morning, and be proclaimed at noon.
(10) Twenty volunteers were skin tested with seven concentrations of histamine phosphate and a glycerosaline control to determine the relative sensitivity and precision of four skin test devices: Greer Pen (GP), Greer DermaPIK (DP), Center Multi-Test (MT), and Morrow Brown needle (MB).
(11) At the same time the erythropoiesis in the bone morrow, the spleen and in the lymph nodes increased; there also was a lymphoid hyperplasia in spleen and lymph nodes.
(12) With the Morrow-Brown needle, the results varied in the same person and from one tester to another, and on many occasions the test was negative.
(13) Morrow has been named along with 21 other PG&E executives in a consolidated shareholder derivative lawsuit which has been launched against the company, its directors and management.
(14) The dose of laser light was based on comparison of biopsies of punctures with Morrow-Brown Needles and varying combinations of laser energy parameters.
(15) Morrow said Manning repeatedly abused his security clearance when he had access to army IT systems, saying that each day he had access to a classified computer was an opportunity for the soldier to "stick his finger in the eye of the classification system".
(16) 3.08am BST Scott Morrow (@ttocsworrom) @ lengeldavid that's 4 straight games the giants pitcher has got an RBI.
(17) Young readers used similar strategies as those in Morrow (1985), where narrative presentation did not tax memory.
(18) The prosecution in the case, led in the sentencing phase by Captain Joe Morrow, has asked for at least a 60-year sentence, arguing that a longer punishment would deter future potential leakers.
(19) Morrow’s appointment continues something of a tradition of past controversy by heads of the NBNCo.
(20) The human trafficking and exploitation bill was tabled before the assembly by Democratic Unionist peer Lord Morrow.