An instance of something being borrowed.
January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites
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(linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
: Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City
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