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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