outborrow

English

Etymology

out- +‎ borrow

Verb

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

1. 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?