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unborrowing

unborrowing adjective: not borrowing.

Adjective

unborrowing (not comparable)

  1. Not borrowing.
    • Why should unborrowing tax payers be made the unwilling endorsers of the paper of their borrowing neighbors?1855, Annual Report of the Department of Public Instruction of the State of Indiana, page 50

Origin of unborrowing

From un- + borrowing.

Questions about unborrowing

What does unborrowing mean?
Unborrowing means not borrowing.
What part of speech is unborrowing?
Unborrowing is an adjective.

Words near unborrowing in the dictionary

  1. unborne
  2. unbornness
  3. unborns
  4. unborrowable
  5. unborrowed
  6. unborrowing
  7. unbosom
  8. unbosomed
  9. unbosomer
  10. unbosomers
  11. unbosoming

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