Debt

Noun

 * 1) An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
 * 2) The state or condition of owing something to another.
 * 3) 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.

Adjectives for Debt
common; enormous; stale; ancestral; crushing; credit; impaired; recoverable; petty; immeasurable; incalculable; heavy; tremendous; huge; lawful; honest; long-standing; mounting; urgent; floating; discharged; everlasting; terrible; dubious; regulating; desperate; profound; gambling; unpayable, joint; countless; paltry.

Verbs for Debt
abolish—; acknowledge—; amass—; assume—; cancel—; clear—; confront with—; contract—; die in—; discharge—; dissolve—; encumber with—; free from—; harass with-—; incur—; overwhelm with—; plunge into—; repay—; repudiate—; scale down—; smart under—; swell—; unload—; wipe away—; —jumps; —rises; —soars.

Synonyms for Debt
liability, charge, deficit, obligation, arrears, debit.

Antonyms for Debt
asset, overage, excess.

Thesaurus
accountability, accountable, answerable for, arrearage, arrears, beholden, borrowing, debit, debtor, default, deficit, delinquency, due, encumbered, encumbrance, financing, hire purchase, hitting, hitting-up, hocking, in arrears, in debt, in hock, in the red, indebted, indebtedness, installment buying, installment plan, liability, liable, money-raising, mortgaging, nonpayment, obligation, owing, pawning, pledging, responsibility, responsible, sin, straitened, touching, under obligation, wickedness, wrong

Etymology
From dete: (French: dette:) <  debita: <  debitum:, neuter of debitus:, perfect passive participle of debeo:, contraction of *undefined: < de: + habeo:.

The unpronounced "b" in the modern English spelling, is a Latinisation from the Latin etymon debitum:.

Derived terms

 * bad debt
 * debt-equity ratio
 * debt-laden
 * domestic debt


 * external debt
 * foreign debt
 * in debt
 * national debt

Related terms

 * debit
 * debitor
 * debtor
 * indebted

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: задължение
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 人情債, 人情债
 * Danish: gæld, skyldighed
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: tartozás,
 * Italian:


 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Mapudungun:
 * Polish: zobowiązanie, wdzięczność , dług
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * West Frisian:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 人情債, 人情债
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:, tartozás
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian: skola, įsiskolinimas
 * Polish: zadłużenie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: skuld (be in debt: stå i skuld)
 * West Frisian:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 借款, 欠款, 債務, 债务
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: võlg
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חוב (khov)
 * Hungarian:, tartozás
 * Hindi:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (, fusai),  (, shakkin)
 * Kurdish: qer ,
 * Latvian: parāds
 * Lithuanian: skola
 * Polish: dług
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * West Frisian: