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{
"term": "borrow",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "borrow",
"heSheIt": "borrows"
},
"pastSimple": "borrowed",
"pastParticiple": "borrowed",
"ingForm": "borrowing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to take and use something that belongs to somebody else, and return it to them at a later time",
"sensetop": "borrow somethingborrow something from somebody/somethingborrow something off somebody",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Can I borrow your umbrella?",
"contextForm": "borrow something"
},
{
"text": "Members can borrow up to ten books from the library at any one time.",
"contextForm": "borrow something from somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "I borrowed the tools I needed off my brother.",
"contextForm": "borrow something off somebody"
},
{
"text": "I'll borrow some coffee off the neighbours."
},
{
"text": "I'm borrowing my mum's car for the weekend."
},
{
"text": "You can borrow the book from the local library."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["heavily"],
"preposition": ["from", "off"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to take money from a person or bank and agree to pay it back to them at a later time",
"sensetop": "borrow somethingborrow something from somebody/somethingborrow from somebody/somethingborrow something off somebody",
"labels": "(informal)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "How much did you have to borrow to pay for this?",
"contextForm": "borrow something"
},
{
"text": "The goal is to borrow funds at a low interest rate."
},
{
"text": "She borrowed £2 000 from her parents.",
"contextForm": "borrow something from somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "I don't like to borrow from friends.",
"contextForm": "borrow from somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "The company had borrowed heavily from state-owned banks."
},
{
"text": "I had to borrow the money off a friend.",
"contextForm": "borrow something off somebody"
},
{
"text": "She borrowed £50 from her mother."
},
{
"text": "I borrowed £50 off my mum."
}
],
"topics": ["Money", "Houses and homes"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["heavily"],
"preposition": ["from", "off"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to take words, ideas, etc. from another language, person, etc. and use them as your own",
"sensetop": "borrow (from somebody/something)borrow something (from somebody/something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The author borrows heavily from Henry James.",
"contextForm": "borrow (from somebody/something)"
},
{
"text": "His designs borrow freely from the architecture of ancient Egypt."
},
{
"text": "Some musical terms are borrowed from Italian.",
"contextForm": "borrow something (from somebody/something)"
},
{
"text": "The villain was—**to borrow a phrase** from Alex—‘all bark and no bite’."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["freely"],
"preposition": ["from"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to still be alive after the time when you were expected to die",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He’s been living on borrowed time ever since his last heart attack."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to be doing something that other people are likely to soon stop you from doing",
"examples": [
{
"text": "According to the latest opinion polls, the government is living on borrowed time."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɒrəʊ/",
"audio": "bo/borrow/borrow__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɒrəʊz/",
"audio": "bo/borrow/borrows__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɒrəʊd/",
"audio": "bo/borrow/borrowed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɒrəʊɪŋ/",
"audio": "bo/borrow/borrowing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɔːrəʊ/",
"audio": "bo/borrow/borrow__us_2_rr.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɔːrəʊz/",
"audio": "bo/borrow/borrows__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɔːrəʊd/",
"audio": "bo/borrow/borrowed__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɔːrəʊɪŋ/",
"audio": "bo/borrow/borrowing__us_2_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English borgian ‘borrow against security’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German borgen."
}