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How to pronounce “borrow”

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Pronunciation guide for borrow

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of borrow with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do About ItJust a lot of borrowing.
Definition summary: To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

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What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It

Just a lot of borrowing.

[Verb]
To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
(arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
(Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
(ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
To feign or counterfeit.
(obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
(informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
(informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
(golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
[Noun]
(golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
(construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
(programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.