outborrow
English
Etymology
out- + borrow
Verb
outborrow (third-person singular simple present outborrows, present participle outborrowing, simple past and past participle outborrowed)
- To borrow more than.
- 1987, Larry Schweikart, Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction (page 33)
- Individuals in both parties owed money to the state bank and its branches, with Whigs outborrowing Democrats.
- 2006, James MacDonald, A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy (page 3)
- Was it perhaps England's parliamentary government that explained the country's astonishing ability to outborrow and outspend France in spite of having a population less than half the size?
- 1987, Larry Schweikart, Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction (page 33)