debt
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɛt/
debt
- 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.
- I am in your debt.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto), London: Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664 ↗:
- The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh falls#English|fals haste#English|haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.
- 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.
- (legal) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
- French: dette
- German: Schuld, Verbindlichkeit, Verpflichtung
- Italian: debito, obbligo, impegno
- Portuguese: dívida, débito
- Russian: долг
- Spanish: deuda
- German: Schulden, Verbindlichkeit
- Italian: debito, buffo
- Portuguese: dívida, débito
- Russian: долг
- Spanish: deuda
- French: dette
- German: Schulden, Verbindlichkeit
- Italian: debito, buffo
- Portuguese: dívida, débito
- Russian: долг
- Spanish: deuda, pufo (colloquial)
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