1 [C,U] the money that a company, an organization or a person borrows; the act of borrowing money:
an attempt to reduce bank borrowings * High interest rates help to keep borrowing down.
2 [C] a word, a phrase or an idea that sb has taken from another person's work or from another language and used in their own
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, borrowing is tagged as noun.
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