borrowing
Verb
  1. present participle of borrow#English|borrow
    She is borrowing my pen.
Noun

borrowing

  1. An instance of something being borrowed.
    • Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]
  2. (linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.



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