consumer borrowing

consumer borrowing
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consumer borrowing UK US noun [U]
ECONOMICS the amount of money that individual people, not companies, have borrowed to buy things, especially by using credit cards: »

House prices, retail sales, and consumer borrowing are running at record levels.


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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