outborrow
verbEtymology From out- + borrow.
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To borrow more than.
- Individuals in both parties owed money to the state bank and its branches, with Whigs outborrowing Democrats.1987, Larry Schweikart, Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction, page 33:
- 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?2006, James MacDonald, A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy, page 3: