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Definition of Overborrowing
1. overborrow [v] - See also: overborrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overborrowing
Literary usage of Overborrowing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pensions, Savings and Capital Flows: From Ageing to Emerging Markets by Helmut Reisen (2000)
"... or new membership in a First World club) lead to overborrowing, because
financial market institutions fail as efficient information conduits between ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1897)
"Any Colony guilty of overborrowing would find its securities fall below the level
of those available for Trust Funds. Thirdly, it was advanced ..."
3. Manual of Library Economy by James Duff Brown (1903)
"Before leaving the question of loans, it may be well to offer a word of warning
against the danger of overborrowing, which has very seriously crippled the ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"Moreover Queensland was suffering from the effects of overborrowing, and fresh
trouble could not well be borne. Good interest had been paid on deposits, ..."
5. Manual of Library Economy by James Duff Brown (1903)
"41, Before leaving the question of loans, it may be well to offer a word of
warning against the danger of overborrowing, which has very seriously crippled ..."
6. The Social Trend by Edward Alsworth Ross (1922)
""Booms," frenzied speculation, overbuilding, overborrowing, overdoing of public
improvements, overexpansion, overconfidence, and extravagance are among the ..."
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