Definition for Borrowing:

• obtaining funds from a lender

Synonyms for Borrowing:

• n.

  •
  • clue,
  • catch-all.
  •
  • liability,
  • home loan,
  • arrears,
  • debit,
  • due,
  • bad debt,
  • debt,
  • balance,
  • borrowings,
  • bill.
  •act (noun)
  • adoption,
  • borrowing.
  •appropriating (noun)
  • renting,
  • accepting a loan,
  • financing.
  •plagiarism (noun)
  • cribbings,
  • literary thefts.
  •renting (noun)
  • taking,
  • Utilizing,
  • Hiring,
  • Imitating,
  • using,
  • assuming,
  • freeloading,
  • mooching,
  • Adopting,
  • Plagiarizing,
  • importing,
  • Bumming,
  • Cadging.

• v.

  •borrowing (verb)
  • Appropriating,
  • Obtaining.
  •debiting (verb)
  • Deducting,
  • Pledging,
  • Debiting.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • creditworthiness,
  • exclamation,
  • tongue twister,
  • superlative,
  • parenthesis,
  • endearment,
  • debt collector,
  • soft loan,
  • usurer,
  • palindrome,
  • securitization,
  • creditworthy,
  • anagram,
  • compound interest,
  • refinance,
  • sweet nothings,
  • mantra,
  • simile,
  • coinage,
  • synecdoche,
  • acrostic,
  • incantation,
  • heading,
  • mouthful,
  • chant,
  • Arabism,
  • epithet,
  • quits,
  • archaism,
  • creditor,
  • usury,
  • Tmesis,
  • rallying cry,
  • jargon,
  • double negative,
  • guarantor,
  • euphemism,
  • metaphor,
  • moneylender,
  • loan shark,
  • context,
  • slang,
  • zeugma,
  • guaranteed,
  • colloquialism,
  • the spoken word,
  • malediction,
  • foreclose,
  • lien,
  • mixed metaphor,
  • borrowing power,
  • mnemonic,
  • prime rate,
  • interest-free,
  • translation,
  • neologism,
  • watchword,
  • double entendre,
  • americanism,
  • anglicism,
  • wh-question,
  • password,
  • financier,
  • revolving fund,
  • onomatopoeia.
  •
  • toxic,
  • utterance,
  • expression,
  • owe,
  • tag,
  • interrogative,
  • salutation,
  • label,
  • word,
  • leitmotif.
  •
  • pledge,
  • reference,
  • term,
  • roll over,
  • irredeemable.
  •
  • security.
  •
  • principal,
  • write off.
  •
  • guarantee.
  •
  • extension.
  •
  • put on.
  •exoticism
  • Foreignism.

Paraphrases for Borrowing:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    borrow.
  • Proper noun, singular
    borrow, lending.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    lending.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    cross-borrowing.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    loaning, financing, debtor, bond, funding, appropriation, lender, receivables, receivable.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    following, acquiring, Mobilizing, Generating, collecting, Obtaining, drawing, Referring, using, Navigating, moving, entering, seizing, raising, ordering, travelling, going, demanding, asking, paying, Requesting, driving, calling, counting, dealing, getting, financing, lending, funding, receivables.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    loan, loans, debt.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    credit, loan, debt.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    loaning, credit.

Antonyms for Borrowing:

• n.

  • appropriating
    loaning.

Borrowing Sentence Examples:

• But we are borrowing trouble, are we not?

• But he presented himself at Nantasket with the event so perceptibly on his mind that his wife asked: Well, Silas, has Rogers been borrowing any more money of you?

Hypernym for Borrowing:

• n.

  • act
    misappropriation, naturalisation, pawn, naturalization, crossover.

Hyponym for Borrowing:

• n.

  • act
    appropriation, transaction, dealing, dealings.