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  • noun Plural form of borrowing.
  • noun Things that have been borrowed. Especially words that originated in a foreign language.

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Examples

  • You remember this was done last Autumn by certain borrowings from the Banks.

    Some War-Time Business and Financial Problems 1940

  • The company funds its investments primarily through short term borrowings structured as repurchase agreements.

    unknown title 2012

  • Wells Fargo has to pay lower interest rates on its core deposits as compared to long term debt and short term borrowings.

    Forbes.com: News Trefis Team 2011

  • Inventory decreased 2% to $86.5 million from $88 million and we had zero short term borrowings at quarter end.

    unknown title 2011

  • There were no FHLB short term borrowings at either date.

    unknown title 2011

  • The Company may make use of short term borrowings such as an overdraft facility for liquidity and investment purposes in order to gear the returns on the Company's investment portfolio but in any event borrowings will not exceed, at any one time, 25 per cent. of Total Assets without shareholder approval by ordinary resolution.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • Inventory decreased 2% to $86.5 million from $88 million and we had zero short term borrowings at quarter end.

    unknown title 2011

  • Cash and short-term investments at the parent company, net of short term borrowings and commercial paper, amounted to roughly $4.5 billion as of the end of the second quarter.

    unknown title 2011

  • Yes, and I think that a summary level, what our expectations are is that working capital that would in fact exclude cash and short-term borrowings, that is our definition of working capital.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • Gazprom, one of Russia's most indebted companies, said its net debt fell slightly to 840.5 billion rubles at the end of March, down from 871.0 billion rubles in the earlier quarter, mainly due to the ruble's appreciation against the dollar and the euro, which decreased the size of its short-term and long-term borrowings.

    Gazprom's Net Surges 44% Alexander Kolyandr 2011

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