borrowed money

collocation in English

meaningsofborrowandmoney

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borrow
verb
uk
/ˈbɒr.əʊ/us
/ˈbɑːr.oʊ/
to get or receive something from someone with the intention of giving it back after a period ...
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money
noun[U]
uk
/ˈmʌn.i/us
/ˈmʌn.i/
coins or notes (= special pieces of paper) that are used to buy things, or an amount of these that a ...
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(Definition ofborrowandmoneyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Because of the overhead and labor costs of a single unprofitable film, they financed onborrowedmoney, often leading to bankruptcy.
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As much as the republic lived onborrowedmoney, it lived even more on borrowed time.
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If, however, the husband hadborrowedmoneyto provide his wife with a dower she could be liable for the payment of these debts.
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Probably the strongest instrument of restraint at the fed's disposal was its power to raise margin requirements, which governed how much stock could be bought withborrowedmoney.
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If b>1, the pension scheme must borrow the proportion (bx1) at the riskless rate, and invest theborrowedmoney, plus the entire pension fund, in the perfect hedging instrument.
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This is becauseborrowedmoneyhas not been utilised in the short term operating cycle (normal business) but to acquire new fixed assets (affecting long term operability).
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The 10.7 million people who haveborrowedmoneyto buy their homes will be affected directly and adversely.
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Like other taxpayers, however, they are entitled to a set-off for the interest they pay onborrowedmoney.
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In the second place they haveborrowedmoneyfrom international resources.
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The higher price may not compensate the farmers for the interest they may have had to pay onborrowedmoneyover the period.
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If we are to tackle inflation properly, we must try to reduce spending financed byborrowedmoney.
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Most of the millions of houses which were built before this war began were built with the assistance ofborrowedmoney.
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They haveborrowedmoneyand have tried to be efficient by investing in the industry.
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The £1 billion ofborrowedmoneycould well sustain the magnet and continue to drain the older inner city areas of their population.
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I fear that living for so many years onborrowedmoneyill prepares us for the effort of living entirely on our own efforts.
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It means that the local authorities are paying interest onborrowedmoneymuch longer than they need do.
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If one spends moreborrowedmoney, interest rates will increase.
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He pointed out that what we were doing was to useborrowedmoneyfor current charges.
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I wish to point out, however, that we are living onborrowedmoney.
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