Definition: 1. The money that a company, an organization or a person borrows; the act of borrowing money. 2. The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source. 3. Obtaining funds from a lender.
Use 'borrowing' in a sentence:
1. Many youths can only get through by borrowing money, and it means they have to earn more money when they graduate.
2. Borrowing used to not be recommended.
3. After 10 years of hard work, he saved up enough money to buy his first car, a cheap one—he wouldn't buy one until he could afford to pay for it without borrowing money.
4. The cost of borrowing has been excluded from the inflation figures.
5. People don't like borrowing.
6. In fact, every semester we get a few students who would have their borrowing privileges suspended completely because they haven't returned books.
7. So you have to bring it back, even though you've got "extended borrowing privileges".
8. The names are direct borrowings from the Chinese.
9. By borrowing from dozens of banks, he managed to avoid giving any of them an overall picture of what he was up to.
10. Portugal's borrowing costs jumped.
11. You signed up for extended borrowing privileges?
12. People were borrowing, mortgaging their homes in many cases to obtain those bits of paper, because they were sure they found an easy way to make money.
13. We have allowed spending and borrowing to rise in this recession.
14. Meanwhile, Europe has fallen prey to a different ideological trap: the belief that European governments would always have infinite resources and could continue borrowing as if there were no tomorrow.
15. Borrowing costs are rising.
16. In fact, every semester we get a few students who have their borrowing privileges suspended completely because they haven't returned books.
17. She's always borrowing my clothes and manipulating me to give her vast sums of money.
18. Those two next-door families are not on borrowing terms.
19. People don’t like borrowing.
20. Their engineers are happier borrowing other people's ideas than developing their own.
21. Chinese garden designers have used the method of "borrowing scenery with a mirror" to create a sense of space.
22. Some people think that borrowing money from a friend would spoil their friendship.
23. The fund is largely financed through government borrowing.
24. Unlike the Americans, who felt that the markets knew best, the Europeans failed to anticipate how the markets would react to their endless borrowing.
25. He seemed to be preparing to sanction an increase in public borrowing.
26. A 12-year-old might need to be shown that raiding the biscuit tin without asking permission is acceptable, but that borrowing a parent's clothes without permission is not.
27. The increased spending and borrowing made many people's blood boil.
28. Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrowing, spending and competitiveness, backed by quasi-automatic sanctions for governments that do not obey.
29. The high cost of borrowing is inhibiting investment by industry in new equipment.
30. We'd been brought up to think that borrowing money was bad.
31. Borrowing$ 100,000 is one thing. Owing$ 425,000 is another!
32. Lower interest rates can boost the economy by reducing borrowing costs for consumers and businesses.
33. Rates of interest for this type of borrowing can be high.
34. They pass on their cost of borrowing and add it to their profit margin.
35. The budgetary arithmetic suggests that government borrowing is set to surge.
36. High interest rates help to keep borrowing down.
