Borrowing Synonyms and Antonyms

bŏrō-ĭng, bôr-
The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. renting
  2. financing
  3. hiring
  4. accepting a loan
  5. assuming
  6. taking
  7. adopting
  8. appropriating
  9. imitating
  10. plagiarizing
  11. adoption
  12. utilizing
  13. importing
  14. bumming
  15. cadging
  16. mooching
  17. freeloading
Antonyms:
  1. loan
  2. loaning
  3. pawning
Adopt from another source; appropriate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. plagiarizing
  2. assuming
  3. appropriating
Antonyms:
  1. returning
  2. giving

Words Related to Borrowing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Borrowing Sentence Examples

  • Borrowing was resorted to by the government.

  • Such extension could be effected only by borrowing money.

  • The military development which sprang from the Crusades is thus largely a matter of borrowing; the financial development is independent and indigenous in the West.

  • The constitution of 1876 forbids the borrowing of money except to supply casual deficiencies of revenue (amount limited to $200,000 at a time), repel invasion, suppress insurrection, defend the state in war, or pay existing debts.

  • Over the years we have achieved a total return on stockholders ' funds well in excess of the annual cost of this new borrowing.

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