ECONOMICS,ACCOUNTING,FINANCEtoborrowmoremoneythan you canpayback orpaytheintereston:We did not overborrow butstucktoourlimits.
over-borrowing
noun[U](alsooverborrowing)Problems mayarisethrough either afallinincomeor over-borrowing.(Definition ofover-borrowfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofover-borrow
over-borrowIf weover-borrowor over-tax, we shall create a situation which, far from diminishing unemployment, must tend materially to increase it.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0One feature of debt intolerant countries that are serial defaulters is their tendency toover-borrow.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There was a general feeling of confidence, a tendency toover-borrowmoney and to spend huge sums on railways and other public works.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The greatest problem for farmers, particularly those who have entered farming during the last 20 years, has been over-borrowing.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Industry has over-borrowed; everybody has over-borrowed.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These 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/over-borrow##
