"short-term borrowings" is a correct and usable phrase in written English and can be used in any context where you are discussing borrowings of money over a shorter period of time, as opposed to long-term borrowing.
For example, you could say, "The company had to take out short-term borrowings to cover the costs of a new product launch."
South Korea, in other words, is facing what bankers call a classic liquidity crisis.The country has for too long relied too much on short-term borrowings.
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously approved on Friday a proposal to reinstate a requirement that publicly traded companies disclose more information about their short-term borrowings.
Including short-term borrowings, the burden rises to twice G.D.P. Greece's debt is 150 percent of G.D.P., and yet Japan has not required a rescue.
Still, both made similarly critical missteps by piling into risky investments linked to the booming real estate market with short-term borrowings.
Last year, the comptroller's office paid $55.3 million just in interest on two short-term borrowings to pay the state's bills.
While Western economists are mostly unimpressed by Malaysia's controls, many speak highly of a quasi tax that Chile has imposed on short-term borrowings from abroad.
The company faces a Jan . 1deadline to reduce its $52 million of short- term borrowings.
Of this $2.98 billion, $1.2 billion was used to repay Blackstone's short term borrowings.
As of their last quarterly regulatory filings, in June, Goldman had $71 billion in short-term unsecured borrowings and $182 billion in long-term borrowings.
One of American Express's weak spots going into the crisis was that it was overly dependent on potentially skittish short-term market borrowings to fund its business.
INVESTORS in money market funds had yet another scare in mid-January, when Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison defaulted on commercial paper -- unsecured short-term corporate borrowings -- held by money funds.
