Borrow or borrowing can mean: to receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

  • In finance, monetary debt
  • In linguistics, change in a language due to contact with other languages
  • In arithmetic, when a digit becomes less than zero and the deficiency is taken from the next digit to the left
  • In music, the use of borrowed chords
  • In construction, borrow pit
  • In golf, the tendency of a putted ball to deviate from the straight line; see Glossary of golf#B

People

  • David Borrow (born 1952), British politician
  • George Borrow (1803–1881), English author
  • Nik Borrow, bird artist and ornithologist

See also

  • Borough
  • Borro (disambiguation)
  • Borrowes, a surname
  • Borrows, a surname
  • Bureau (disambiguation)
  • Burrow