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borrowing

[bor-oh-ing, bawr-] / ˈbɒr oʊ ɪŋ, ˈbɔr- /
NOUN
appropriating
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
loaning


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Higher Treasury yields could also lift regional discount rates and borrowing costs, weighing particularly on real estate, utilities, infrastructure and telecom stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Private student loans don’t always come with higher borrowing costs.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

And the nearly $1.8 trillion federal budget deficit so far this fiscal year only reinforces the borrowing need.

From MarketWatch Aug. 23, 2026

Deputy leader Richard Tice will set out plans to build 50,000 affordable social homes a year in a news conference on Monday, a policy which the party claims will require no new taxes or borrowing.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

Eisman and his partners focused concretely on the people doing the borrowing and the lending.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

His latest idea is to use some of the Treasury’s cash on hand to reduce borrowings.

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

The drop followed an announcement that SpaceX would issue its first investment-grade dollar bonds to raise an unspecified amount for repaying outstanding borrowings under its bridge loan facility.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 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




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