英和和英

形容詞

borrowable (comparative more borrowable, superlative most borrowable)

1. Capable of being borrowed; available to be borrowed.
   • 1989, Roy Love, “Funding the Ethiopian State: Who Pays,”, in Review of African Political Economy, number 44, page 24:

     The corresponding rise in bank savings is, of course, beneficial to the government in its search for borrowable funds.

派生語

名詞

borrowable (plural borrowables)

1. Something that is borrowable.
   • 1980, Peter Hellman, “Tree Number D-92: Leokadia Jaromirska”, in Avenue of the Righteous: Portraits in Uncommon Courage of Christians and the Jews They Saved from Hitler, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 180:

     With Sofia gone, the books and other borrowables were now moved back to the rear room and the neighbors were again invited to lounge in both rooms of the apartment.

   • 1994, Elizabeth Jones, John Nimmo, “What this book is for”, in Emergent Curriculum, Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children, published 2003 (4th printing), →ISBN, chapter 1 (Introduction: A Year in the Life of a Child Care Center), page 5, columns 1–2:

     This isn’t a book of formulas, but there are lots of “borrowables” in it. As you read these teachers’ story, you’ll be doing your own planning of possible curriculum; alert teachers do that all the time. You may think, “I wouldn’t do that.” Or you may think, “Oh, that’s a good idea,” and try it with the children you teach.

   • 2008, Tibor Fischer, Good to Be God, Richmond, London: Alma Books, →ISBN, page 106:

     It’s so unoriginal it bores me and how, more than disappointment or sorrow at humanity’s antics, it must bore God. All this stuff we find so important, absorbing, exciting and maddening. […] Rage at unreturned borrowables.