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  • present participle of borrow.
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borrowing

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


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The Ministry of Finance is slated to auction 10-year government bonds Thursday, testing investor demand as markets assess the prospect of higher borrowing costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Welsh ministers had called for changes to their borrowing rules and assurances that child poverty payments it wants to introduce would leave recipients' tax and benefits allowances unaffected.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

But the Treasury Department may soon help matters by moving to ease pressure on longer-dated yields and keeping a lid on borrowing costs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

That’s because stealing, begging or borrowing material in service of an artistic creation made by real people is enormously different from some corporation doing it to build a better Mechanical Turk.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

As the Portuguese navigators explored the coast of Africa they charted and named it, often borrowing names from the local peoples, or using the names of saints.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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


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