"borrow capital" is an idiomatic expression which means to obtain a loan or other type of financial assistance.
It can be used in both spoken and written English. For example: The company was having financial difficulty, so they decided to borrow capital from a private investor.
Banks are finding it harder to borrow capital from each other, with loans to the "real economy" in the trough.
students and faculty and staff members, he also said the university had used up much of its capacity to borrow capital.
In the tech industry – and the restaurant industry, or any industry, really – it is considered necessary to spend, experiment, fail, struggle, borrow capital and ultimately find a healthy balance between expenditure and income.
It's strange that German and French nationalised utilities running their railways, gas and electricity can borrow capital commercially, enabling them to invest in acquiring British rail contracts, as well as acquiring our former nationalised gas and electricity concerns.
The payment-by-results approach also favours outfits whose balance sheets are healthy enough to sustain some financial uncertainty and borrow capital to invest.The Big Society has given way to big business no bad thing, but a departure from the blueprint.
When you can borrow capital with a minimal risk premium, smart operators plunge in.
But those programs that are run and managed by local borrowers and connected to education, health care, small-business management, improved literacy and a savings fund that eventually replaces the borrowed capital — thereby liberating the borrowers from dependency on the lending organization — are worthy of support in Haiti and elsewhere in the developing world.
The higher guarantee, he said, "is key to being able to lever borrowed capital".
"It sounds like he was really growing the farm with borrowed capital," Mr. Jerdon said.
Businesses backed by private equity generally had a higher ratio of borrowed capital to equity than did publicly quoted companies.
Unlike most hedge funds, Apollo will base its management fee on total assets, including borrowed capital, according to the prospectus.
