Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
this is the hypernym for loan rendering / loan rendition and loan translation, and optionally also for loan creation (usage varies)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: loan coinage, semantic borrowing
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see loan, formation (in banking etc.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
History
From loan + formation.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
