Borrower
['bɑroɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent.
Typist: Wilhelmina--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who borrows.
Editor: Nancy
Examples
- Why should he be so anxious to know the time at which a borrower of money is usually privileged to pay the money back? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The interest which the borrower can afford to pay is in proportion to the clear profit only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The stock is at the risk of the borrower, who, as it were, insures it to the lender; and four or five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The borrower may use it either as a capital, or as a stock reserved for immediate consumption. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is the compensation which the borrower pays to the lender, for the profit which he has an opportunity of making by the use of the money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When, in the larger money-business, I tell the borrowers--' 'I say, old chap! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- What the three monied men, A, B, and C, assigned to the three borrowers, W, X, and Y, is the power of making those purchases. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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