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borrow money

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To "borrow money" is to get funds from a person or lender and agree to repay it later. It often comes with interest and terms, and helps cover costs when you lack enough cash.

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I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do. Solomon Burke

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals. James Weldon Johnson

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back. Lee Iacocca

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. Ron Paul

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders. Bill Gross

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war. Ken Mehlman

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