borrowings
Money owed back
Borrowings are things taken temporarily with intent to return, or words and ideas adopted from another source.
In linguistics, borrowings are words imported from other languages—English has borrowings from French, Latin, and dozens of others: Many legal terms are borrowings from Norman French.
Financial borrowings are debts: The company's borrowings exceeded its assets.
Borrowed phrase translated literally
- anglicismEnglish loanword abroad
- transliterationCross-script phonetic spelling
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- importationBringing goods from overseas
Borrowed money repaid later
- interestAttention, stake, or fee
- creditorOne owed money
- lenderOne who loans money
- repaymentGiving back what's owed
principal · collateral · mortgage · credit · default · overdue · arrears · installment
Underlying supporting material
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
- pidginImprovised contact language
- creoleNativized pidgin tongue
- bilingualismProficiency in two languages
multilingualism · diglossia · etymology · cognate · doublet
Passive molecular spreading
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- integrationCombining into a whole
- transmissionSending of information
incorporation · influence · adoption · appropriation · syncretism · hybridization · acculturation · cross-pollination
Temporary provision of resources
- circulationMovement through a system
- checkoutPayment completion process
- returnGo back again
- renewalMaking current again
hold · reserve · interlibrary · card · stack · catalog · collection
calque
Borrowed phrase translated literally
- anglicismEnglish loanword abroad
- transliterationCross-script phonetic spelling
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
importation · naturalization · adaptation · foreignism · exoticism
loan
Borrowed money repaid later
repayment · principal · collateral · mortgage · credit · default · overdue · arrears · installment · liability
substrate
Underlying supporting material
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
- pidginImprovised contact language
- creoleNativized pidgin tongue
bilingualism · multilingualism · diglossia · etymology · cognate · doublet
diffusion
Passive molecular spreading
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- integrationCombining into a whole
transmission · incorporation · influence · adoption · appropriation · syncretism · hybridization · acculturation · cross-pollination · transfer
lending
Temporary provision of resources
- circulationMovement through a system
- checkoutPayment completion process
- returnGo back again
renewal · hold · reserve · interlibrary · card · stack · catalog · collection
- Romance linguisticsRomance languages, Gallo-Romance, Italian, Spanish, Latin roots
- vocabularyword, words, new words, term, terms
- etymologyword origins, word history, word origin, etymon, root words
- Language phenomenaloanwords, pidgins, creoles, dialects, slang
- word studyword origins, word roots, word meaning, word meanings, word formation
- Language SourcesLatin, Greek, French, German, Spanish
- borrowing rateCost to take loans
- borrowing limitMaximum permitted debt amount
- government borrowingState taking on debt
- borrowing costsFees for using loaned funds
- semantic borrowingAdopting foreign meaning, native word
- borrowing powerAbility to obtain loans