ECONOMICS,FINANCE,GOVERNMENTthetotalamountthat agovernmentborrows, or theactofborrowingthismoney:The Treasury iskeentoreducegovernmentborrowingquickly.Thegovernmenthas beenforcedto rely onpublicborrowingtofinanceaseriesof stimulativemeasures.Comparenational debt(Definition ofpublic borrowingfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpublic borrowing
public borrowingThe constraints onpublicborrowingsuggest, nevertheless, that borrowing levels are not currently too low in most countries.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At first the scarcity of funds available forpublicborrowingwas no doubt due to pessimism about the prospects of the new state.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When the government runs a budget deficit, funds will need to come frompublicborrowing(the issue of government bonds), overseas borrowing, or monetizing the debt.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One was that over the cycle,publicborrowingshould only be for investment expenditure and not to pay for current expenditure.From theCambridge English CorpusIt was argued that the privatisation programme would improve ef?ciency, widen share ownership and generate government revenue which would help reducepublicborrowing.From theCambridge English CorpusThe instruments initially deployed to achieve these objectives were interest rates andpublicborrowing(?scal policy).From theCambridge English CorpusFirst, the interest rates for private investors are usually higher than forpublicborrowingas discussed above.From theCambridge English CorpusThe budget deficit continued to decline to below 2 % in line withpublicborrowing.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishExcessivepublicborrowingwould push up interest rates, penalise private investors and be inflationary.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishIn particular, we should quickly redirect public investment by means ofpublicborrowing, significantpublicborrowing.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/public-borrowing##
