Definition of borrowing in English:

borrowing

noun ˈbɒrəʊɪŋˈbɑroʊɪŋ

mass noun

1The action of borrowing something.
借，借入
a curb on government borrowing
控制政府借债。
count noun the group had total borrowings of $570 million
集团共举债5.7亿美元。
Example sentencesExamples
- Total borrowing by pensioners through these schemes is £2.3bn.
- The most recent estimate of the total of Calonne's borrowing is 651 million livres.
- But what we are most concerned about is the lack of a proper business plan for the planned borrowing of £16 million to fund a new central library that just can't be paid back overnight.
- This raised the question as to how long the global economic system could sustain such borrowings from its largest member and what the consequences would be of a sudden reversal.
- Officers are still trying to find out whether the £5 million for borrowing is available for more than one year.
- American students are taking out more loans without understanding the consequences borrowing can have on them after graduation, says a late March report by a public advocacy group.
- This is Monopoly stuff, with hundreds of millions of pounds of borrowing.
- Another reason for the disparity of interest rates is a lack of corporate borrowing.
- Over the first five months of the fiscal year public borrowing has totalled £16.8bn, more than double the figure for the same period last year.
- Marguerite Gracy, head of Bolton Libraries, says that while borrowing of books and audio visual material may be declining, the number of people visiting libraries is increasing.
- Consumers continue to go deeper into debt as the latest credit figures reveal that borrowing rose strongly at 16% in the year to the end of May 2003.
- As a final note, the interest on National's proposed borrowing is around $150 million a year.
- Even though interest rates had fallen by 2.75% in the past three years, he said the cost of borrowing for business still remained exorbitantly high.
- By 1998, net borrowing had reached 660 million euros.
- I know these are tiny examples, but I'm sure more could be done in the way of borrowing and sharing.
- The emergence of specific-purpose vehicles like PPPs has changed infrastructure investment, but the need for government borrowing is still substantial.
- And borrowing has reached almost £280 million.
- Though critical in itself, it still accounts for just one-third of total borrowing in the state.
- According to the British Bankers' Association, new borrowing on credit cards totalled just over £6.5 billion last month alone.
- All that is required for borrowing is a valid university identification card or a valid participating regional consortia card.
1. 1.1count noun A word or idea taken from another language, person, or source and used in one's own language or work.
  （词语，意见，方法的）借用，采用
  the majority of designs were borrowings from the continent
  大部分都是借用欧洲大陆的设计。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Constancio's rejection of Paine's deism illustrates that liberals were selective in their borrowings from the ‘canonical’ Enlightenment.
  Sterne acknowledged his borrowings from writers such as Cervantes and Montaigne, but was curiously silent about his many thefts from Burton.
  Burying one's learned borrowings from ‘sources’ was a craft which one picked up from one's teachers.
  His stark, dramatic compositions strive for immediacy of effect at all costs - now in unpolished newsreel fashion, now in shadowy borrowings from Expressionism.
  Like linguistic systems, it is open to individual inventions and borrowings that expand the language, and redundancies that contract it.
  How borrowings from Hindi words have changed since the end of the Raj is evident from what I once saw in London's Trafalgar Square.
  A few more aphorisms have been found as borrowings from the past.
  The use of the voluntary sector is a convenient method of concealing the number of people employed by central and local government and removing the necessary borrowings from public statistics.
  The riot is ‘deconstructed’ to show how all its materials are forms of borrowings from other sources, a fact which apparently precludes it from being genuinely spiritual.
  A similar phenomenon occurred in Old English, in which very many abstract words were formed by compounds of native Germanic words, instead of by borrowings from Latin.
  Fenelon's text, full of borrowings from the ancients, is beautiful in its elocution and its rhythm.
  Rushdie's borrowings from Dante consist of topographical and stylistic devices.
  I was, however, interested in Scots Gothic and ballads, having been sidetracked slightly in my research by Muriel Spark's use of the supernatural and her borrowings from Scotland's dark history.
  German today is peppered with borrowings from English and, despite some mutterings, there are no official attempts to purify the tongue of Goethe and Grass.
  Indeed, many of the colonial terms which puzzled the new chums were not colonial-grown, but borrowings from various British dialects.
  In Glasgow's jewellers and souvenir shops you can hardly move for bowdlerisations and the palest of borrowings from the city's most famous son.
  Religion in the lives of tropical forest foragers increasingly reflects borrowings from neighboring African groups.
  Moreover, even with the borrowings from flamenco, the movement vocabulary was thin, with very little formal choreography.
  The focus on the disappearance of existing words and the formation of new words provided insight into loan-words and borrowings as well as obsolete terms.
  The clientele for McCulloch's hotels has always been cosmopolitan and he freely acknowledges his borrowings from French hotel and restaurant culture.

Definition of borrowing in US English:

borrowing

nounˈbɑroʊɪŋˈbärōiNG

1The action of borrowing something.
借，借入
count noun the group had total borrowings of $570 million
集团共举债5.7亿美元。
the borrowing of clothes
借衣服。
Example sentencesExamples
- Officers are still trying to find out whether the £5 million for borrowing is available for more than one year.
- Over the first five months of the fiscal year public borrowing has totalled £16.8bn, more than double the figure for the same period last year.
- As a final note, the interest on National's proposed borrowing is around $150 million a year.
- But what we are most concerned about is the lack of a proper business plan for the planned borrowing of £16 million to fund a new central library that just can't be paid back overnight.
- This raised the question as to how long the global economic system could sustain such borrowings from its largest member and what the consequences would be of a sudden reversal.
- All that is required for borrowing is a valid university identification card or a valid participating regional consortia card.
- Though critical in itself, it still accounts for just one-third of total borrowing in the state.
- I know these are tiny examples, but I'm sure more could be done in the way of borrowing and sharing.
- The most recent estimate of the total of Calonne's borrowing is 651 million livres.
- Another reason for the disparity of interest rates is a lack of corporate borrowing.
- Even though interest rates had fallen by 2.75% in the past three years, he said the cost of borrowing for business still remained exorbitantly high.
- Consumers continue to go deeper into debt as the latest credit figures reveal that borrowing rose strongly at 16% in the year to the end of May 2003.
- Total borrowing by pensioners through these schemes is £2.3bn.
- By 1998, net borrowing had reached 660 million euros.
- This is Monopoly stuff, with hundreds of millions of pounds of borrowing.
- The emergence of specific-purpose vehicles like PPPs has changed infrastructure investment, but the need for government borrowing is still substantial.
- And borrowing has reached almost £280 million.
- According to the British Bankers' Association, new borrowing on credit cards totalled just over £6.5 billion last month alone.
- Marguerite Gracy, head of Bolton Libraries, says that while borrowing of books and audio visual material may be declining, the number of people visiting libraries is increasing.
- American students are taking out more loans without understanding the consequences borrowing can have on them after graduation, says a late March report by a public advocacy group.
1. 1.1 A word, idea, or method taken from another source and used in one's own language or work.
  （词语，意见，方法的）借用，采用
  a hard-bop musician with some borrowings from free jazz
  Example sentencesExamples
  German today is peppered with borrowings from English and, despite some mutterings, there are no official attempts to purify the tongue of Goethe and Grass.
  Sterne acknowledged his borrowings from writers such as Cervantes and Montaigne, but was curiously silent about his many thefts from Burton.
  The use of the voluntary sector is a convenient method of concealing the number of people employed by central and local government and removing the necessary borrowings from public statistics.
  The focus on the disappearance of existing words and the formation of new words provided insight into loan-words and borrowings as well as obsolete terms.
  Moreover, even with the borrowings from flamenco, the movement vocabulary was thin, with very little formal choreography.
  Rushdie's borrowings from Dante consist of topographical and stylistic devices.
  Constancio's rejection of Paine's deism illustrates that liberals were selective in their borrowings from the ‘canonical’ Enlightenment.
  Fenelon's text, full of borrowings from the ancients, is beautiful in its elocution and its rhythm.
  In Glasgow's jewellers and souvenir shops you can hardly move for bowdlerisations and the palest of borrowings from the city's most famous son.
  His stark, dramatic compositions strive for immediacy of effect at all costs - now in unpolished newsreel fashion, now in shadowy borrowings from Expressionism.
  The clientele for McCulloch's hotels has always been cosmopolitan and he freely acknowledges his borrowings from French hotel and restaurant culture.
  I was, however, interested in Scots Gothic and ballads, having been sidetracked slightly in my research by Muriel Spark's use of the supernatural and her borrowings from Scotland's dark history.
  Indeed, many of the colonial terms which puzzled the new chums were not colonial-grown, but borrowings from various British dialects.
  Religion in the lives of tropical forest foragers increasingly reflects borrowings from neighboring African groups.
  A few more aphorisms have been found as borrowings from the past.
  The riot is ‘deconstructed’ to show how all its materials are forms of borrowings from other sources, a fact which apparently precludes it from being genuinely spiritual.
  A similar phenomenon occurred in Old English, in which very many abstract words were formed by compounds of native Germanic words, instead of by borrowings from Latin.
  Burying one's learned borrowings from ‘sources’ was a craft which one picked up from one's teachers.
  How borrowings from Hindi words have changed since the end of the Raj is evident from what I once saw in London's Trafalgar Square.
  Like linguistic systems, it is open to individual inventions and borrowings that expand the language, and redundancies that contract it.

词汇	borrowing
释义	Definition of borrowing in English: borrowing noun ˈbɒrəʊɪŋˈbɑroʊɪŋ mass noun 1The action of borrowing something. 借，借入 a curb on government borrowing 控制政府借债。 count noun the group had total borrowings of $570 million 集团共举债5.7亿美元。 Example sentencesExamples Total borrowing by pensioners through these schemes is £2.3bn. The most recent estimate of the total of Calonne's borrowing is 651 million livres. But what we are most concerned about is the lack of a proper business plan for the planned borrowing of £16 million to fund a new central library that just can't be paid back overnight. This raised the question as to how long the global economic system could sustain such borrowings from its largest member and what the consequences would be of a sudden reversal. Officers are still trying to find out whether the £5 million for borrowing is available for more than one year. American students are taking out more loans without understanding the consequences borrowing can have on them after graduation, says a late March report by a public advocacy group. This is Monopoly stuff, with hundreds of millions of pounds of borrowing. Another reason for the disparity of interest rates is a lack of corporate borrowing. Over the first five months of the fiscal year public borrowing has totalled £16.8bn, more than double the figure for the same period last year. Marguerite Gracy, head of Bolton Libraries, says that while borrowing of books and audio visual material may be declining, the number of people visiting libraries is increasing. Consumers continue to go deeper into debt as the latest credit figures reveal that borrowing rose strongly at 16% in the year to the end of May 2003. As a final note, the interest on National's proposed borrowing is around $150 million a year. Even though interest rates had fallen by 2.75% in the past three years, he said the cost of borrowing for business still remained exorbitantly high. By 1998, net borrowing had reached 660 million euros. I know these are tiny examples, but I'm sure more could be done in the way of borrowing and sharing. The emergence of specific-purpose vehicles like PPPs has changed infrastructure investment, but the need for government borrowing is still substantial. And borrowing has reached almost £280 million. Though critical in itself, it still accounts for just one-third of total borrowing in the state. According to the British Bankers' Association, new borrowing on credit cards totalled just over £6.5 billion last month alone. All that is required for borrowing is a valid university identification card or a valid participating regional consortia card. 1.1count noun A word or idea taken from another language, person, or source and used in one's own language or work. （词语，意见，方法的）借用，采用 the majority of designs were borrowings from the continent 大部分都是借用欧洲大陆的设计。 Example sentencesExamples Constancio's rejection of Paine's deism illustrates that liberals were selective in their borrowings from the ‘canonical’ Enlightenment. Sterne acknowledged his borrowings from writers such as Cervantes and Montaigne, but was curiously silent about his many thefts from Burton. Burying one's learned borrowings from ‘sources’ was a craft which one picked up from one's teachers. His stark, dramatic compositions strive for immediacy of effect at all costs - now in unpolished newsreel fashion, now in shadowy borrowings from Expressionism. Like linguistic systems, it is open to individual inventions and borrowings that expand the language, and redundancies that contract it. How borrowings from Hindi words have changed since the end of the Raj is evident from what I once saw in London's Trafalgar Square. A few more aphorisms have been found as borrowings from the past. The use of the voluntary sector is a convenient method of concealing the number of people employed by central and local government and removing the necessary borrowings from public statistics. The riot is ‘deconstructed’ to show how all its materials are forms of borrowings from other sources, a fact which apparently precludes it from being genuinely spiritual. A similar phenomenon occurred in Old English, in which very many abstract words were formed by compounds of native Germanic words, instead of by borrowings from Latin. Fenelon's text, full of borrowings from the ancients, is beautiful in its elocution and its rhythm. Rushdie's borrowings from Dante consist of topographical and stylistic devices. I was, however, interested in Scots Gothic and ballads, having been sidetracked slightly in my research by Muriel Spark's use of the supernatural and her borrowings from Scotland's dark history. German today is peppered with borrowings from English and, despite some mutterings, there are no official attempts to purify the tongue of Goethe and Grass. Indeed, many of the colonial terms which puzzled the new chums were not colonial-grown, but borrowings from various British dialects. In Glasgow's jewellers and souvenir shops you can hardly move for bowdlerisations and the palest of borrowings from the city's most famous son. Religion in the lives of tropical forest foragers increasingly reflects borrowings from neighboring African groups. Moreover, even with the borrowings from flamenco, the movement vocabulary was thin, with very little formal choreography. The focus on the disappearance of existing words and the formation of new words provided insight into loan-words and borrowings as well as obsolete terms. The clientele for McCulloch's hotels has always been cosmopolitan and he freely acknowledges his borrowings from French hotel and restaurant culture. Definition of borrowing in US English: borrowing nounˈbɑroʊɪŋˈbärōiNG 1The action of borrowing something. 借，借入 count noun the group had total borrowings of $570 million 集团共举债5.7亿美元。 the borrowing of clothes 借衣服。 Example sentencesExamples Officers are still trying to find out whether the £5 million for borrowing is available for more than one year. Over the first five months of the fiscal year public borrowing has totalled £16.8bn, more than double the figure for the same period last year. As a final note, the interest on National's proposed borrowing is around $150 million a year. But what we are most concerned about is the lack of a proper business plan for the planned borrowing of £16 million to fund a new central library that just can't be paid back overnight. This raised the question as to how long the global economic system could sustain such borrowings from its largest member and what the consequences would be of a sudden reversal. All that is required for borrowing is a valid university identification card or a valid participating regional consortia card. Though critical in itself, it still accounts for just one-third of total borrowing in the state. I know these are tiny examples, but I'm sure more could be done in the way of borrowing and sharing. The most recent estimate of the total of Calonne's borrowing is 651 million livres. Another reason for the disparity of interest rates is a lack of corporate borrowing. Even though interest rates had fallen by 2.75% in the past three years, he said the cost of borrowing for business still remained exorbitantly high. Consumers continue to go deeper into debt as the latest credit figures reveal that borrowing rose strongly at 16% in the year to the end of May 2003. Total borrowing by pensioners through these schemes is £2.3bn. By 1998, net borrowing had reached 660 million euros. This is Monopoly stuff, with hundreds of millions of pounds of borrowing. The emergence of specific-purpose vehicles like PPPs has changed infrastructure investment, but the need for government borrowing is still substantial. And borrowing has reached almost £280 million. According to the British Bankers' Association, new borrowing on credit cards totalled just over £6.5 billion last month alone. Marguerite Gracy, head of Bolton Libraries, says that while borrowing of books and audio visual material may be declining, the number of people visiting libraries is increasing. American students are taking out more loans without understanding the consequences borrowing can have on them after graduation, says a late March report by a public advocacy group. 1.1 A word, idea, or method taken from another source and used in one's own language or work. （词语，意见，方法的）借用，采用 a hard-bop musician with some borrowings from free jazz Example sentencesExamples German today is peppered with borrowings from English and, despite some mutterings, there are no official attempts to purify the tongue of Goethe and Grass. Sterne acknowledged his borrowings from writers such as Cervantes and Montaigne, but was curiously silent about his many thefts from Burton. The use of the voluntary sector is a convenient method of concealing the number of people employed by central and local government and removing the necessary borrowings from public statistics. The focus on the disappearance of existing words and the formation of new words provided insight into loan-words and borrowings as well as obsolete terms. Moreover, even with the borrowings from flamenco, the movement vocabulary was thin, with very little formal choreography. Rushdie's borrowings from Dante consist of topographical and stylistic devices. Constancio's rejection of Paine's deism illustrates that liberals were selective in their borrowings from the ‘canonical’ Enlightenment. Fenelon's text, full of borrowings from the ancients, is beautiful in its elocution and its rhythm. In Glasgow's jewellers and souvenir shops you can hardly move for bowdlerisations and the palest of borrowings from the city's most famous son. His stark, dramatic compositions strive for immediacy of effect at all costs - now in unpolished newsreel fashion, now in shadowy borrowings from Expressionism. The clientele for McCulloch's hotels has always been cosmopolitan and he freely acknowledges his borrowings from French hotel and restaurant culture. I was, however, interested in Scots Gothic and ballads, having been sidetracked slightly in my research by Muriel Spark's use of the supernatural and her borrowings from Scotland's dark history. Indeed, many of the colonial terms which puzzled the new chums were not colonial-grown, but borrowings from various British dialects. Religion in the lives of tropical forest foragers increasingly reflects borrowings from neighboring African groups. A few more aphorisms have been found as borrowings from the past. The riot is ‘deconstructed’ to show how all its materials are forms of borrowings from other sources, a fact which apparently precludes it from being genuinely spiritual. A similar phenomenon occurred in Old English, in which very many abstract words were formed by compounds of native Germanic words, instead of by borrowings from Latin. Burying one's learned borrowings from ‘sources’ was a craft which one picked up from one's teachers. How borrowings from Hindi words have changed since the end of the Raj is evident from what I once saw in London's Trafalgar Square. Like linguistic systems, it is open to individual inventions and borrowings that expand the language, and redundancies that contract it.
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