borrowable meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

borrowable

adj

Etymology From borrow + -able.

Capable of being borrowed; available to be borrowed.

The corresponding rise in bank savings is, of course, beneficial to the government in its search for borrowable funds.1989, Roy Love, “Funding the Ethiopian State: Who Pays,”, in Review of African Political Economy, number 44, page 24:

noun

Etymology From borrow + -able.

Something that is borrowable.

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.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:
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.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:

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