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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. Dan Bienvenue:

    We need every arrow in the quiver we can get, and private debt is one of the critical ones, there isn't a no-risk choice.

  2. Beatrice Lindstrom:

    Our clients have lost breadwinners and gone into debt to pay for funeral costs, cholera has been crushing in so many ways, and it is promising that victims will now have an opportunity to weigh in on how this assistance can best be provided.

  3. Paolo Gentiloni:

    It will have permanent consequences on financial markets because we have this European-denominated debt to be repaid in the next 30 years, on the future -- if this instrument works and we are able to agree on the new own resources to repay this common debt, I think we can have a serious discussion on further initiatives.

  4. Marco Rubio:

    I only have one debt in the world, which is my mortgage on the home that me and my family live in in Miami.

  5. Adam Green:

    If Joe Biden positions himself as the political insider from yesteryear who says big ideas like universal childcare, student debt relief and a wealth tax on ultra-millionaires are not possible, he would be an easy foil.


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