OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17868

borough

/ˈbʌ.ɹə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
concejo • municipio
A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
municipio
An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory…
📚 verb • entry_id 6848

borrow

/ˈbɒɹ.əʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
emprestar • pedir prestado • tomar prestado
To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that…
calcar
To adopt a word from another language.
Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed military abbreviation that means “Fucking New Guy”.