Definitions
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- adjective Not borrowed; being one's own; native; original.
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- adjective Not
borrowed .
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Examples
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In the last twenty years or so, we saw the utilization of a dizzying array of nontraditional alternatives in which rates were not fixed or only fixed for a time, principal was only partially amortized or not amortized at all, and by means of second mortgages or simply through lax underwriting standards, purchases often means little or no upfront, unborrowed cash deposit.
David A. Dana: A Simple Approach to Preventing the Next Housing Crisis: Why We Need One, What One Would Look Like, and Why Dodd-Frank Isn't It David A. Dana 2010
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In the last twenty years or so, we saw the utilization of a dizzying array of nontraditional alternatives in which rates were not fixed or only fixed for a time, principal was only partially amortized or not amortized at all, and by means of second mortgages or simply through lax underwriting standards, purchases often means little or no upfront, unborrowed cash deposit.
David A. Dana: A Simple Approach to Preventing the Next Housing Crisis: Why We Need One, What One Would Look Like, and Why Dodd-Frank Isn't It David A. Dana 2010
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There is something of the laboratory in this library where the books lie dusty and unborrowed, while exams are swotted for and where the intellectual and social posturing hides insecurities and self harm.
Punk Rock 2010
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When the entire private sector deleverages, the economy faces the danger of falling into a deflationary spiral as saved funds and repaid loans sit unborrowed in the banking system.
Now Isn't the Time To Privatize Japan Post Richard C. Koo 2010
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In the last twenty years or so, we saw the utilization of a dizzying array of nontraditional alternatives in which rates were not fixed or only fixed for a time, principal was only partially amortized or not amortized at all, and by means of second mortgages or simply through lax underwriting standards, purchases often means little or no upfront, unborrowed cash deposit.
David A. Dana: A Simple Approach to Preventing the Next Housing Crisis: Why We Need One, What One Would Look Like, and Why Dodd-Frank Isn't It David A. Dana 2010
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In the last twenty years or so, we saw the utilization of a dizzying array of nontraditional alternatives in which rates were not fixed or only fixed for a time, principal was only partially amortized or not amortized at all, and by means of second mortgages or simply through lax underwriting standards, purchases often means little or no upfront, unborrowed cash deposit.
David A. Dana: A Simple Approach to Preventing the Next Housing Crisis: Why We Need One, What One Would Look Like, and Why Dodd-Frank Isn't It David A. Dana 2010
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In the last twenty years or so, we saw the utilization of a dizzying array of nontraditional alternatives in which rates were not fixed or only fixed for a time, principal was only partially amortized or not amortized at all, and by means of second mortgages or simply through lax underwriting standards, purchases often means little or no upfront, unborrowed cash deposit.
David A. Dana: A Simple Approach to Preventing the Next Housing Crisis: Why We Need One, What One Would Look Like, and Why Dodd-Frank Isn't It David A. Dana 2010
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So my only sources of background information were the Penguin Book of Comics and an American volume on newspaper strips by Gene Byrnes which lurked otherwise unborrowed in my local library.
AAARGH! Bumper Souvenir Catalogue Steve 2009
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No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the wildest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears.
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Sydney or Dobell speaks with a voice of his own, unborrowed, unmimicked.
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