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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 2 votes

  1. debt

    Synonyms:
    debit, liability, default, obligation, claim, score, something due

    Antonyms:
    liquidation, assets, credit, trust, grace, favor, obligation, accommodation, gift, gratuity

Princeton's WordNet

  1. debtnoun

    the state of owing something (especially money)

    "he is badly in debt"

  2. debtnoun

    money or goods or services owed by one person to another

  3. debtnoun

    an obligation to pay or do something

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. owe

    something, typically money, that is owed or due.

    i am not in debt anymore!

    Submitted by JP03 on October 27, 2014  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. debtnoun

    Synonyms:
    due, obligation

  2. debtnoun

    Synonyms:
    trespass, offence, transgression, sin, fault, crime

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. debtnoun

    Synonyms:
    liability, due, obligation, debit

    Antonyms:
    asset, resource

    Associated words:
    garnishee, distrain, distress, debenture

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How to use debt in a sentence?

  1. Chuck Schumer:

    We have reached agreement to extend the debt ceiling through early December and it's our hope that we can get this done as soon as today.

  2. Christopher Lee:

    What it says to me is that many of these companies are quite cautious in terms of expansion and taking on new debt, the side effects will be slower industrial growth and slower GDP growth than what was achieved in 2017.

  3. The CFPB:

    Today we are considering proposals that would drastically overhaul the debt collection market, this is about bringing better accuracy and accountability to a market that desperately needs it.

  4. Brenda Kelly:

    The time was ripe for management to address the problems and any measures that might shore up some confidence in what was beginning to look like a penny stock are clearly welcome, dividend cuts, asset selling and a new debt reduction plan appear to be doing the trick.

  5. Ted Cruz:

    These children come in in debt to vicious cartels thousands and thousands of dollars. The teenage boys work for the gangs in every city in America, and the teenage girls experience a hell worse than that, with far too many of them human trafficked into sex slavery, joe Biden and Kamala Harris are responsible for the worst plague of slavery in America since the Civil War.


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