Definition of borrows:
(v) :
To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
(v) :
To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
(v) :
To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
(v) :
(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
(v) :
(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.
(v) :
(Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.