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Definition of Overborrow
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overborrow
Literary usage of Overborrow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Economics for High Schools and Academies by Frank Wilson Blackmar (1907)
"Prices continue to rise, and people, in a vain attempt to realize the supposed
results of these high prices, go into excessive business and overborrow. ..."
2. Developing Countries: Debt Relief Initiative for Poor Countries Faces Challenges by Thomas Melito (2000)
"... encouraging them to overborrow.6 Much of the lending was not used effectively,
and the debt continued to grow, according to the 1999 staff paper. ..."
3. Democracy, Decentralisation and Deficits in Latin America by Kiichiro Fukasaku, Ricardo Hausmann (1998)
"Another source of soft budget constraints is the ability of State and local
governments to overborrow in expectation of a federal government or central bank ..."
4. Growth and Competition in the New Global Economy by Ulrich Hiemenz (1999)
"... saving (or to depress investment) can counter the tendency to overborrow,
Higher saving (or reduced investment) depreciates the real exchange rate, ..."
5. Wall Street Accounting: A Description of the Business of Brokerage, Its by Frederick Simson Todman (1921)
"... 271-294 blotter, 22-26 cannot overborrow on customer's securities, 9 cash
basis, 153 clearing house balance, 88 clearing house issues, 19 closing books, ..."
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