outborrow

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verb

To borrow more than.

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Meanings

verboutborrow (third-person singular simple present outborrows, present participle outborrowing, simple past and past participle outborrowed)

present singular third person outborrows · participle present outborrowing · participle past outborrowed · past outborrowed

  1. 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
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    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

Origin

From out- + borrow.

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APA

outborrow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outborrow

MLA

“outborrow.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outborrow. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outborrow,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outborrow.

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