borrow 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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Borrowingmoneyis consistently more common than spending savings.
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Without a permanent and secure source of income, these families often have to rely onborrowingmoney from loan-sharks or employers to make ends meet during periods of unemployment.
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The critical economic issue is whether households can maintain current living standard without relying on temporary measures that cannot be sustained indefinitely, such asborrowingmoneyor spending savings.
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They are in exactly the same position as the owner-occupierborrowingmoneythrough a mortgage to buy a house.
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It is no goodborrowingmoneyon a house which is not worth 10 or 20 years' purchase.
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It is possible, for example, that the cost of acquiring a new wayleave for a pipe-line may be sufficient to justifyborrowingmoneyon mortgage.
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But one cannot be made to pay if one isborrowingmoneyat high interest rates.
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We cannot possibly go onborrowingmoneyin the same successful way we did recently.
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It further proposes to continue the vicious system ofborrowingmoney.
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Really, raising capital andborrowingmoneyare not synonymous terms.
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There are many problems facing local authorities inborrowingmoney.
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Let us do so if we have the money, but there is no point inborrowingmoneyto nationalise.
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The day has long since passed when there was some social stigma associated withborrowingmoney.
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I cannot understand why anyone should object toborrowingmoneyoverseas to invest it in our industry overseas.
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We are nowborrowingmoneyand talking about recycling.
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But where they are notborrowingmoneyfrom any public source, they can fix any price they like, and the tenants suffer.
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Can you cure unemployment byborrowingmoneyand spending that money on road schemes or unemployment schemes?
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The only way by which capital can pay wages to-day is byborrowingmoney.
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The question is, can you byborrowingmoneyand spending it upon public works, diminish the volume of unemployment?
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