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borrowing

borrowing

55 2.3
Getting money from a person or bank that you must pay back with interest
  • noun
  • /ˈbɔroʊɪŋ/
: endeudamiento
  • Why am I borrowing money from my dad?
  • cost of borrowing
  • government borrowing
  • household borrowing

When you restrict borrowing, you limit GDP.

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Examples

  • The real cost of foreign borrowing was negative until the early 1980s.

    Academic text (1992)

  • When you restrict borrowing, you limit GDP.

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  • And the cost of borrowing is continuing to rise.

  • Would they recommend more borrowing, including the associated higher debt limit?

    Academic text (2017)

  • If that is interest free, why do you keep borrowing money through your workplace?

  • And it was obvious that they were borrowing more money than they could repay.

  • Borrowing money is something he just can't do.

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  • The utility of borrowing among students attending community colleges is a source of controversy.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The second research question examined how borrowing affected students' enrollment behaviors and educational experiences.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The interest rates for borrowing money from the bank have increased significantly this year.

Antonyms

repayment
31 2.9

Money you return after you borrowed it

saving
1 3.7

Careful about spending money and avoiding waste

Compounds

borrowing cost
  • Specialized
6 3.1

Money you pay in interest and fees to use money from a bank or another person

How Much

insolvency
  • Specialized
11 6.8
indebtedness
6 7.0
borrowing
55 2.3
debt
∞ 2.6
loan
∞ 2.0

Surface Forms

borrowing singular
borrowings plural

Morphology

borrowing = borrow (transparent) = borrow + ing

Regular '-ing' nominalization of 'borrow' referring to the act of obtaining money; the financial sense is a primary, transparent meaning of the verb.

Etymology

Borrowing comes from the old English verb borrow, which meant 'to take something with a promise to return it'. That's why borrowing money means getting cash now and planning to pay it back later, often with an extra payment called 'interest'.