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borrower 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent
  2. (borrowing) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"
  3. (borrowing) obtaining funds from a lender
  4. A loan is a type of debt. Like all debt instruments, a loan entails the redistribution of financial assets over time, between the and the .
  5. The Borrower is a 1991 science fiction / horror film directed by John McNaughton. It's a B-movie about an alien serial killer, who is sent to Earth to live among humans as a form of penalty. It stars Rae Dawn Chong (daughter of actor/musician Tommy Chong) and Antonio Fargas.
  6. (Borrowing (linguistics)) A loanword (or loan word) is a word borrowed from one language and incorporated into another.
  7. (The Borrowers) The Borrowers is a series of children's fantasy novels by Mary Norton about tiny people who live in the homes of big people and "borrow" things to survive while keeping their existence unknown. ...
  8. (The Borrowers (TV miniseries)) The Borrowers is a BBC TV miniseries first broadcast in 1992 on BBC2 and then later on American television station TNT. ...
  9. One who borrows
  10. (Borrowers) Churches, schools, colleges, universities or other non-profit religious entities
  11. (The Borrowers) [illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush] (juvenile novel) 1952
  12. (The borrowers) Poorly kitted-out British forces, as described by American soldiers - and lenders
  13. Borrowers are those members of the community who have joined their local public library and hold a membership card.
  14. (Borrowing) incurring an obligation to repay a debt in order to invest or consume more than one currently owns
  15. Borrowing is a sign of loss and meagre support. For a banker to dream of borrowing from another bank, a run on his own will leave him in a state of collapse, unless he accepts this warning. If another borrows from you, help in time of need will be extended or offered you. ...
  16. (Borrowing) Taking extra cards from one’s previous melds to form new sets. (Panguingue)
  17. (borrowing) [language change] The act of adopting some aspect of one language into another. It may be lexical (the most obvious and common type of borrowing) but also syntactic, morphological or phonological. ...
  18. (BORROWING) The same as checking out a book.
  19. (Borrowing) In a cap-and-trade scheme, borrowing is when a regulated entity (emitter) borrows or uses allowances from a future compliance period. Borrowing is not common in cap-and-trade schemes as it can result in an unacceptable deferral of total emission reductions. ...
  20. (BORROWING) As Simon Horobin defines it, "The process by which words are adopted into one language from another" (192). Linguists use this term because borrowing sounds better than the term stealing, which would be more accurate given that we do not typically return the words we borrow. ...
  21. (BORROWING) Financial liability (short or long-term) that obligates us to repay cash or another financial asset to another entity.
  22. (BORROWING) Getting money from someone else that you intend to pay back. You might borrow informally from friends and family or take out a formal loan with a written agreement.
  23. (BORROWING) The use of source language terms to fill gaps in the target language lexical system, e.g. the German word "angst" used in English. Cultural borrowing involves the same process, but with socio-cultural references from the source language and culture and not simply lexical items.
  24. (Borrowing) 5:01 AM Apr 15th via web
  25. (Borrowing) A loan of a library item for a specified length of time. See also the Borrowing website