Definition of "borrowed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of borrow. (verb)

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• "Most borrowed author James Patterson photographed by Rankin for RandomHouse writes today, Catherine Cookson, for years the most ­borrowed writer, has been comprehensively overshadowed by the giants of American popular fiction."
• "So pervasive is shampoo that even Hindi has taken it as a term borrowed from English to refer to the hair-cleaning product, while the older Hindi word champi continues to mean “a massage,” including a massage of the head."
• ""No net loss" is a term borrowed from the vocabulary of wetland conservation, and allows for replacement of lost assets with equivalent resources."