заи́мствовать — meaning in English
zaimstvovat
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English meaning
- borrow verb To take or receive something temporarily, intending to give it back.
Senses
заи́мствовать is used for these senses in English:
- borrow To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- borrow (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.
borrow — full definition
- verb To take or receive something temporarily, intending to give it back.
- verb To adopt an idea, word, or style from somewhere else and use it as your own.
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