Borrowing in a sentence as a noun

"I looked at it and said, I'll be damned — that's why he's been borrowing all my books.

Just like borrowing money, you can borrow time from the future as well.

He'd been borrowing all my college textbooks on rocketry and propulsion.

Crazy , they should be borrowing money and paying themselves bonuses before going bust - that's what Wall St wants

We're massively overspending as is - borrowing tons of money our grandchildren will still be paying back.

In Lion they have started moving desktop Mac OS X to a world of full-screen applications, just like on iOS, and are borrowing many of the UI elements.

I don't think it's as revolutionary as many people want to make it out to be, but I've never been opposed to borrowing good ideas liberally, either.

Engaging in deficit spending in ones family would be a great idea if you had an unlimited line of infinite forgiveable-borrowing at 0% from a reserve bank.

I'm just a cynical colonist, but I can't help thinking that an employer asking for that form prior to giving you a job offer is just borrowing the implied authority of government to convince you to compromise your own negotiating position.

So, we're going to have the government borrow more money to give it to companies that don't need it, using its incredible inability to allocate capital to decide which of these companies to allocate capital to?If the government can't productively allocate capital and companies have enough, why, in the terms of this post, exactly is it such a bad idea to have the government stop borrowing all the available capital and let the companies start allocating it instead?

Borrowing definitions

noun

the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"

See also: adoption

noun

obtaining funds from a lender