der Pump

B1 Noun frequency rank #10,009

What Pump means

Noun

credit, a state of operation functioning only by borrowing

Forms

der Pump · no common plural

Pronunciation

Pump in a sentence

Er hat sich das Auto auf Pump gekauft.

He bought the car on credit.

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Pump is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #10,009 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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