Borrow

Definition

borrow /'bɒrǝƱ/ v ~ (sth) (from sb/sth) ၁။ ေခ်း (ယူ) သည္။ ငွားရမ္း(ယူ)သည္။ ခဏယူသည္။ borrow (money) from the bank/a friend ❍ I've forgotten my pen. Can I borrow yours? ❍ borrow a book from the library. Compare LEND ၂။ (က) အတုခိုးသည္။ borrow freely from other writers ❍ borrow sb's style/methods ❍ Handel borrowed music from other composers. (ခ) (အျခားဘာသာ စကားမွ) ေမြးစားသည္။ The expression ‘nouveau riche’ is borrowed from French. ❏ (be living on) borrowed time [ IDM ] ေသမင္း ခံတြင္း ထဲမွ လြတ္လာၿပီး ဆက္လက္အသက္ရွင္ေနသည္။ ေသေန႔မေစ့ေသး ၍ ဆက္လက္အသက္ရွင္ေနသည္။ ❏ borrower n ေခ်းသူ။ ငွားသူ။ Compare LENDER ❏ borrowing n ၁။ [U] ေငြေခ်း(ယူ)ျခင္း။ high interest rates which help to keep borrowing down ❍ borrowing costs. ၂။ [C] (က) ငွားရမ္းသည့္ ပစၥည္း။ ေခ်း(ယူ)ေငြ။ The company will soon be able to repay its borrowings from the bank. (ခ) ေမြးစားစကားလံုး။ French has many borrowings from English.

Examples

1. Can I borrow your calculator?
2. [borrow something from someone/something] : I borrowed a camera from Alex.
3. We borrowed £20
4. 000 to start up the business.
5. [borrow heavily] : He’d borrowed heavily to pay for the car.
6. [borrow something from someone/something] : His speech was
7. to borrow a phrase from Shakespeare
8. ‘full of sound and fury’.
9. English is full of words that have been borrowed from other languages.
10. [borrow freely/heavily] : His designs borrow freely from ancient Egyptian art.