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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overborrow .
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Examples
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U.S. consumers who had overborrowed before the crisis are now saving more and consuming less; while this is good for the long run, it is a drag on demand in the short run.
Olivier Blanchard: The Two Rebalancing Acts Olivier Blanchard 2010
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U.S. consumers who had overborrowed before the crisis are now saving more and consuming less; while this is good for the long run, it is a drag on demand in the short run.
Olivier Blanchard: The Two Rebalancing Acts Olivier Blanchard 2010
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Does anyone truly think that is an acceptable return for the risk of lending to a borrower agreed on all sides to be hideously overborrowed and boasting no plausible repayment plan?
Mitch Feierstein: How to Read the Headlines in an Election Year Mitch Feierstein 2012
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U.S. consumers who had overborrowed before the crisis are now saving more and consuming less; while this is good for the long run, it is a drag on demand in the short run.
Olivier Blanchard: The Two Rebalancing Acts Olivier Blanchard 2010
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Britain — its government and consumers — found itself overborrowed when the global crash came, and the national debt is set to almost double again on current projections to £1.4 trillion by 2014.
Is the U.K. Ready for a Leap of Faith? Iain Martin 2010
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U.S. consumers who had overborrowed before the crisis are now saving more and consuming less; while this is good for the long run, it is a drag on demand in the short run.
Olivier Blanchard: The Two Rebalancing Acts Olivier Blanchard 2010
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That boost has ended, because many families overborrowed, overspent and undersaved.
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Britain — its government and consumers — found itself overborrowed when the global crash came, and the national debt is set to almost double again on current projections to £1.4 trillion by 2014.
Is the U.K. Ready for a Leap of Faith? Iain Martin 2010
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Britain — its government and consumers — found itself overborrowed when the global crash came, and the national debt is set to almost double again on current projections to £1.4 trillion by 2014.
Is the U.K. Ready for a Leap of Faith? Iain Martin 2010
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But a free fall would be averted, and as overborrowed Americans repaid their debts, they would resume higher spending.
Priming the Economy 2009
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