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Borrowing Synonyms Dictionary.com Find Synonyms For Any Word.Get Your Free Dictionary.com Toolbar.
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriating |
| Synonyms: | accepting a loan, financing, renting |
| Antonyms: | loaning |
| Main Entry: | borrow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adopt from another source; appropriate |
| Synonyms: | acquire, adopt, assume, copy, filch, imitate, make one's own, obtain, pilfer, pirate, plagiarize, simulate, steal, take, use, usurp |
| Antonyms: | give, return |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Borrowing. |
| Category: | 2. Transfer of Property |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
borrowing, pledging., borrowed plumes; plagiarism (thieving)., replevin.
-verbs
borrow, desume., hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year, hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year; adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take., raise money, take up money; raise the wind; fly a kite, borrow from Peter to pay Paul; run into debt (debt)., replevy.
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| Antonyms: | lending |
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| Main Entry: | plagiarism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | copying of another's written work |
| Synonyms: | appropriation, borrowing, counterfeiting, cribbing, falsification, fraud, infringement, lifting, literary theft, piracy, stealing, theft |
| Antonyms: | original, originality |
| Main Entry: | installment plan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deferred payment plan |
| Synonyms: | borrowing, consumer credit, hire purchase plan, installment buying, installment credit, layaway plan, store credit, time payment plan |
| Main Entry: | loan word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | word borrowed from another language |
| Synonyms: | borrowed word, borrowing, calque, imported word, loan translation, neology, paronym |
| Main Entry: | adopt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choose or take something as one's own |
| Synonyms: | accept, adapt, affiliate, affirm, appropriate, approve, assent, assume, borrow, embrace, endorse, espouse, follow, go down the line, go in for, imitate, maintain, mimic, opt, ratify, seize, select, support, take on, take over, take up, tap, use, utilize |
| Antonyms: | disown, leave alone, reject, repudiate, repulse |
| Main Entry: | appropriate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal |
| Synonyms: | annex, borrow, clap, confiscate, cop, embezzle, filch, get fingers on, get hands on, glom on to, grab, grab hold of, hijack, liberate, lift, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, pilfer, pocket, secure, snatch, swipe, take over, usurp |
| Antonyms: | bequeath, bestow, give, return |
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adopt, acquire |
| Synonyms: | annex, appropriate, arrogate, borrow, clap hands on, commandeer, confiscate, expropriate, get fingers on, get hands on, glom onto, grab, grab hold of, hijack, kipe, liberate, moonlight requisition, preempt, seize, snatch, swipe, take over, usurp |
| Notes: | assume means 'suppose to be the case, without proof; take for granted'; presume means 'suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability; take for granted that something exists or is the case' |
| Antonyms: | leave, let alone, not take |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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