- present participle of borrow.
borrowing
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Rising interest rates could make borrowing costs prohibitive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
They lift borrowing costs across the economy, slowing growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Currently, interest-rate-futures traders are pricing in a 68.6% chance the Fed will raise borrowing costs by 25 basis points, to a range of 4.00% to 4.25%, at its October meeting, according to CME FedWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
With borrowing costs for last month soaring to their second highest level, his room for manoeuvre is limited and he will not scoop his own Budget next month by announcing what is in it.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Inventing a writing system from scratch must have been incomparably more difficult than borrowing and adapting one.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The club's latest quarterly figures showed total borrowings of £1.29bn, including outstanding transfer fees.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
This follows the failure of last week’s big idea, which was to pay down some of the borrowings with…er…borrowed money.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Those obligations are growing faster than traditional “capex,” which totaled about $600 billion over the past year they reported, and were about triple what the companies owe under their outstanding leases and long-term borrowings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
If that happens, he said, it could raise bills for electric customers since the utility may have to pay a higher interest rate for new borrowings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Scholars have long acknowledged such borrowings as moccasins, maize, and military tactics—the Indian-style guerrilla skirmishes with which the rebellious colonists bedeviled British soldiers.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
