Synonyms for borrow
ˈbɒr oʊ, ˈbɔr oʊbor·row

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.7 / 15 votes

1. borrowverb

   get temporarily

   "May I borrow your lawn mower?"

   Synonyms:
   adopt, take over, take up

   Antonyms:
   loan, lend

2. adopt, borrow, take over, take upverb

   take up and practice as one's own

   Synonyms:
   usurp, take in, suck up, seize on, resume, buy up, espouse, acquire, hook on, imbibe, suck in, lift out, sweep up, take, sorb, adopt, strike, assume, relieve, take over, scoop up, repeat, scoop, buy out, embrace, fasten on, arrogate, soak up, sop up, suck, follow, seize, start, dramatise, latch on, draw, accept, take on, absorb, dramatize, take up, scoop out, bear

   Antonyms:
   lend, loan

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1. • Accept

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. borrowverb

   Synonyms:
   ask the loan of, take or receive as a loan

2. borrowverb

   Synonyms:
   take, appropriate, adopt, make use of

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "borrow":

   borrowing, lend, loan

How to pronounce borrow?

How to say borrow in sign language?

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How to use borrow in a sentence?

1. Tom Cotter:

   The car’s top had survived 53 years unscathed, but couldn’t make it 11 days in Alaska, i’ve got bigger problems, anyway. My clutch hydraulics went out, so I’ve convinced a guy to let me borrow his airplane hangar for a bit to fix things. I’ve got work to do.

2. Beth Gamel:

   If you can start talking in those terms to someone looking to borrow, the borrower will see this as a business arrangement at extremely favorable rates.

3. International Labor Organization:

   In the presence of such shocks, men and women without social protection nets tend to borrow to smooth consumption, and to accept any job for themselves or their children, even under exploitative conditions. This can lead to heavy dependence on creditors, recruiters and unscrupulous employers.

4. Elizabeth Shermer:

   It really is going to be this expectation that you are going to need to borrow something to get through college, it’s like that perfect storm.

5. Jerome Powell:

   The idea that deficits don't matter for countries that can borrow in their own currency I think is just wrong. I think that U.S. debt is fairly high as a level of (gross domestic product) and, much more importantly than that, it's growing faster than GDP, to the extent that people are talking about the Fed - our role is not to provide support for particular policies.