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you have it now, but your name was never on the deed.

means taking something that belongs to someone else with an understood, if often vague, obligation to give it back.

from from old english borgian, tied to borg meaning pledge or securityto borrow was literally to leave collateral, a promise wrapped around an object.

for instance

library booksaverage us public library lends 2.5 books per person yearly, unreturned rate climbing

loanwordsenglish borrowed roughly 80 percent of its vocabulary from other languages

national debt

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