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…
Phrases
-boro-boroughBorough GreenBoroughbridgeBrookeboroughConwy County BoroughDenali BoroughFoxboroughGuysboroughKetchikan Gateway BoroughMarlboroughMartinboroughNorthwest Arctic BoroughPeterboroughPetersburg BoroughThe BoroughWoodboroughborough Englishborough councilborough hallborough seatboroughholderboroughhoodboroughitisboroughmasterboroughmongerboroughwideclose boroughcounty boroughinterboroughmetropolitan boroughmultiboroughmunicipal boroughnomination boroughouter boroughparliamentary boroughpocket boroughrotten boroughroyal boroughtriborough
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”.
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