borrow

B1 · Intermediate

v. to take money from a bank and pay it back over time.

v. to obtain funds from a financial institution or lender under an agreement to repay the principal, usually with interest.

日本語:借りる※

“They had to borrow a lot of money to buy their first house.”

“Small businesses often need to borrow capital to manage cash flow during their first few years of operation.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate

v. to use an idea or style that someone else started.

v. to adopt or copy an idea, method, or stylistic element from another source.

日本語:取り入れる※

“The writer decided to borrow some ideas from old folk tales.”

“Modern architects frequently borrow elements from brutalist design to create a sense of permanence and strength in urban spaces.”

C1 · Advanced Science Technical

v. to take a word from one language and start using it in another.

v. to adopt a word or phrase from one language into another through linguistic contact.

Español:calcar

“English decided to borrow the word 'ballet' from French.”

“Linguists study how languages borrow terms for new technologies rather than inventing native equivalents.”

B1 · Intermediate Mathematics

v. to take 'one' from a higher column in a subtraction problem.

v. to shift a unit from a higher-value column to a lower-value column during a subtraction calculation.

“When you subtract 9 from 22, you need to borrow from the tens column.”

“Primary school students often struggle with the concept of borrowing when they first encounter multi-digit subtraction.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate Informal

v. to ask someone to stop what they are doing to help you for a moment.

v. to interrupt a person's current activity to request their assistance or a brief conversation.

“Can I borrow you for a second to help me move this table?”

“The manager asked if she could borrow the lead developer for a quick consultation regarding the server migration.”

C2 · Proficiency Countable noun Computing Technical

n. in some computer languages, when one part of the code uses data owned by another part.

n. the temporary transfer of access to a value without transferring ownership, particularly in the Rust programming language.

“The compiler rejected the code because of an invalid borrow.”

“Effective memory management in Rust requires a deep understanding of how the borrow checker validates references at compile time.”