debt
IPA: dˈɛt
noun
- An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
- The state or condition of owing something to another.
- (finance) Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
- (law) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due
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Examples of "debt" in Sentences
- The debt is receivable.
- Money is a redeemable debt.
- The financial debt is ruinous.
- Not everyone has solvency of debt.
- Money is in a sense redeemable debt.
- The aim is to reduce the public debt.
- The company was ailing and heavily in debt.
- The estate was however encumbered with debt.
- He dressed the naked and the destitute ones and paid their debts and loans.
- The loan sharks frequently colluded in encouraging this expanding chain of debt.
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