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- verb To
borrow too much money.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The story so far: Greece lied its way into the euro, and because it could borrow in the common currency it was able to overborrow.
Greek Scenarios Don't Overlap David Wessel 2011
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You suggest that BABs encourage states and communities to overborrow.
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You suggest that BABs encourage states and communities to overborrow.
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Countries cannot overspend and overborrow forever.
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I tend to way overborrow compared to possible turnaround time of said borrowed item.
Galactic Suburbia Episode 7 girliejones 2010
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You suggest that BABs encourage states and communities to overborrow.
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We " overbuild, overborrow and otherwise make mistakes, " Mr. Pollock says.
Carried Away, Yet Again James R. Hagerty 2010
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Most people, for example, don't understand the effects of compounding of interest -- which leads them to undersave and to overborrow -- a basic human failing that some financial institutions have an incentive to exploit.
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Retailers are particularly vulnerable in the current downturn after a decade of buoyant consumer spending, which encouraged them to overexpand and overborrow.
Wave of Bankruptcy Filings Expected From Retailers in Wake of Holidays 2009
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Now, the federal government is going to overborrow.
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