{
    "term": "borrow",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "borrow",
            "heSheIt": "borrows"
        },
        "pastSimple": "borrowed",
        "pastParticiple": "borrowed",
        "ingForm": "borrowing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to take and use something that belongs to somebody else, and return it to them at a later time",
            "sensetop": "borrow somethingborrow something from somebody/somethingborrow something off somebody",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Can I borrow your umbrella?",
                    "contextForm": "borrow something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Members can borrow up to ten books from the library at any one time.",
                    "contextForm": "borrow something from somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I borrowed the tools I needed off my brother.",
                    "contextForm": "borrow something off somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'll borrow some coffee off the neighbours."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm borrowing my mum's car for the weekend."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can borrow the book from the local library."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["heavily"],
                "preposition": ["from", "off"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to take money from a person or bank and agree to pay it back to them at a later time",
            "sensetop": "borrow somethingborrow something from somebody/somethingborrow from somebody/somethingborrow something off somebody",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "How much did you have to borrow to pay for this?",
                    "contextForm": "borrow something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The goal is to borrow funds at a low interest rate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She borrowed £2 000 from her parents.",
                    "contextForm": "borrow something from somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't like to borrow from friends.",
                    "contextForm": "borrow from somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company had borrowed heavily from state-owned banks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had to borrow the money off a friend.",
                    "contextForm": "borrow something off somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She borrowed £50 from her mother."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I borrowed £50 off my mum."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money", "Houses and homes"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["heavily"],
                "preposition": ["from", "off"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to take words, ideas, etc. from another language, person, etc. and use them as your own",
            "sensetop": "borrow (from somebody/something)borrow something (from somebody/something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The author borrows heavily from Henry James.",
                    "contextForm": "borrow (from somebody/something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His designs borrow freely from the architecture of ancient Egypt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some musical terms are borrowed from Italian.",
                    "contextForm": "borrow something (from somebody/something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The villain was—**to borrow a phrase** from Alex—‘all bark and no bite’."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["freely"],
                "preposition": ["from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to still be alive after the time when you were expected to die",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He’s been living on borrowed time ever since his last heart attack."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to be doing something that other people are likely to soon stop you from doing",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "According to the latest opinion polls, the government is living on borrowed time."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɒrəʊ/",
                "audio": "bo/borrow/borrow__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɒrəʊz/",
                "audio": "bo/borrow/borrows__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɒrəʊd/",
                "audio": "bo/borrow/borrowed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɒrəʊɪŋ/",
                "audio": "bo/borrow/borrowing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɔːrəʊ/",
                "audio": "bo/borrow/borrow__us_2_rr.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɔːrəʊz/",
                "audio": "bo/borrow/borrows__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɔːrəʊd/",
                "audio": "bo/borrow/borrowed__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɔːrəʊɪŋ/",
                "audio": "bo/borrow/borrowing__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English borgian ‘borrow against security’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German borgen."
}