borrowed
On loan, returnable
Borrowed describes something taken temporarily with the intention to return it: a borrowed car, borrowed money.
The word extends to things adopted from elsewhere—borrowed words enter English from other languages, borrowed ideas come from other thinkers.
Living on borrowed time means surviving beyond when death seemed likely.
The past tense of borrow.
Give temporarily
- lenderOne who loans money
- loanBorrowed money repaid later
- creditorOne owed money
- libraryBook collection or building
interlibrary · rental · lease · returnable · on-loan · lending · repayment · collateral
Attention, stake, or fee
- principalChief school administrator
- mortgageSecured home loan
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- defaultPreset standard option
finance · credit · liability · repayment · arrears · indebtedness · creditor · amortization
Imported vocabulary item
- calqueBorrowed phrase translated literally
- appropriatedTook for one's use
- importedObtained from overseas
- foreignFrom another nation
linguistic · etymology · anglicized · transliterated · cognate · neologism · pidgin · creole
Used item passed along
- preownedPreviously belonging to another
- usedAlready been employed
- thriftedBought used, cheaply
- consignmentBatch delivered for selling
shared · communal · recycled · reused · inherited · gifted · regifted · loaner
Of limited duration
- impermanentNot meant to last
- provisionalConditional and possibly temporary
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- fleetingPassing very quickly
on-loan · returnable · lent · limited-time · stopgap · makeshift · interim · stand-in
lend
Give temporarily
library · interlibrary · rental · lease · returnable · on-loan · lending · repayment · collateral · security
interest
Attention, stake, or fee
- principalChief school administrator
- mortgageSecured home loan
- obligationRequired task or commitment
default · finance · credit · liability · repayment · arrears · indebtedness · creditor · amortization · foreclosure
loanword
Imported vocabulary item
- calqueBorrowed phrase translated literally
- appropriatedTook for one's use
- importedObtained from overseas
foreign · linguistic · etymology · anglicized · transliterated · cognate · neologism · pidgin · creole · lexical
hand-me-down
Used item passed along
consignment · shared · communal · recycled · reused · inherited · gifted · regifted · loaner
short-term
Of limited duration
- impermanentNot meant to last
- provisionalConditional and possibly temporary
- transientTemporary, soon departing
fleeting · on-loan · returnable · lent · limited-time · stopgap · makeshift · interim · stand-in · placeholder
- money wordsvalue, worth, wealth, poverty, costly
- removedremoved, taken out, eliminated, deleted, erased
- secondhandused, pre-owned, preowned, secondhand, hand-me-down
- possessionowned, acquired, possessed, kept, retained
- Cultural adaptationanglicized, Hispanicized, Germanized, Hellenized, Latinized
- account statusesactive, closed, pending, approved, denied
- borrowed timeExtension beyond expected limits
- borrowing rateCost to take loans
- on borrowed timeExisting beyond expected limits
- something borrowedItem temporarily taken
- beg borrow or stealAcquire through any means
- borrowed money
borrow, borrowing, borrower, borrows, borrowings, borrowable, borrowed time