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2 ADJ You can use born-again to describe someone who has adopted a new set of beliefs or a new way of life and is very enthusiastic about it. □  As a 'born-again' cyclist I had decided that this season I would ride in a few races.

borne /bɔː ^r n/ Borne is the past participle of bear .

-borne /-bɔː ^r n/ COMB [usu ADJ n] -borne combines with nouns to form adjectives that describe the method or means by which something is carried or moved. □  …water-borne diseases. □  …a mosquito-borne infection. □  …rocket-borne weapons.

bor|ough /bʌ rə, [AM ] bɜː roʊ/ (boroughs ) N‑COUNT [N n] A borough is a town, or a district within a large town, which has its own council. □  …the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

bor|row ◆◇◇ /bɒ roʊ/ (borrows , borrowing , borrowed )

1 VERB If you borrow something that belongs to someone else, you take it or use it for a period of time, usually with their permission. □ [V n] Can I borrow a pen please? □ [V n] He wouldn't let me borrow his clothes.

2 VERB If you borrow money from someone or from a bank, they give it to you and you agree to pay it back at some time in the future. □ [V n + from ] Morgan borrowed £5,000 from his father to form the company 20 years ago. □ [V + from ] It's so expensive to borrow from finance companies. □ [V ] He borrowed heavily to get the money together. [Also V n]

3 VERB If you borrow a book from a library, you take it away for a fixed period of time. □ [V n + from ] I couldn't afford to buy any, so I borrowed them from the library.

4 VERB If you borrow something such as a word or an idea from another language or from another person's work, you use it in your own language or work. □ [V n] I borrowed his words for my book's title. □ [V n] Their engineers are happier borrowing other people's ideas than developing their own.

5 PHRASE Someone who is living on borrowed time or who is on borrowed time has continued to live or to do something for longer than was expected, and is likely to die or be stopped from doing it soon. □  Perhaps that illness, diagnosed as fatal, gave him a sense of living on borrowed time. USAGE borrow

You don’t normally talk about borrowing or lending things that can’t be moved. Don’t say, for example, ‘ Can I borrow your garage next week ?’ Say ‘Can I use your garage next week?’ □  You can use our washing machine.

bor|row|er /bɒ roʊə ^r / (borrowers ) N‑COUNT A borrower is a person or organization that borrows money.

bor|row|ing /bɒ roʊ I ŋ/ (borrowings ) N‑UNCOUNT Borrowing is the activity of borrowing money. □  We have allowed spending and borrowing to rise in this recession.

bor|stal /bɔː ^r st ^ə l/ (borstals ) N‑VAR In Britain in the past, a borstal was a kind of prison for young criminals, who were not old enough to be sent to ordinary prisons.

bos|om /bʊzəm/ (bosoms )

1 N‑COUNT A woman's breasts are sometimes referred to as her bosom or her bosoms . [OLD-FASHIONED ] □  …a large young mother with a baby resting against her ample bosom.

2 ADJ [ADJ n] A bosom friend is a friend who you know very well and like very much indeed. □  They were bosom friends. □  Sakota was her cousin and bosom pal.

boss ◆◆◇ /bɒ s/ (bosses , bossing , bossed )

1 N‑COUNT [oft poss N ] Your boss is the person in charge of the organization or department where you work. □  He cannot stand his boss. □  Occasionally I have to go and ask the boss for a rise.

2 N‑COUNT If you are the boss in a group or relationship, you are the person who makes all the decisions. [INFORMAL ] □  He thinks he's the boss.