outborrow

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ borrow.

Verb

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

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