Debt
[det] or [dɛt]
Definition
(noun.) an obligation to pay or do something.
(noun.) money or goods or services owed by one person to another.
(noun.) the state of owing something (especially money); 'he is badly in debt'.
Editor: Louise--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.
(n.) A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.
(n.) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Due, obligation.[2]. Trespass, offence, transgression, sin, fault, crime.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Debit, liability, default, obligation, claim, score, something_due
ANT:Liquidation, assets, credit, trust, grace, favor, obligation, accommodation,gift, gratuity
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Definition
n. what one owes to another: what one becomes liable to do or suffer: a state of obligation or indebtedness: a duty: (B.) a sin.—p.adj. Debt′ed (Shak.) indebted obliged to.—ns. Debt′ee a creditor; Debt′or one who owes a debt: the side of an account on which debts are charged.—Debt of honour a debt not recognised by law but binding in honour—esp. gambling and betting debts; Debt of nature death.—Active debt a debt due to one as opposed to Passive debt a debt one owes; Floating debt miscellaneous public debt like exchequer and treasury bills as opposed to Funded debt that which has been converted into perpetual annuities like consols in Britain.—In one's debt under a pecuniary obligation to one.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Debt is rather a bad dream, foretelling worries in business and love, and struggles for a competency; but if you have plenty to meet all your obligations, your affairs will assume a favorable turn.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A big word beginning with Owe, which grows bigger the more it is contracted.
Editor: Rosanne
Examples
- You have saved my life: I have a pleasure in owing you so immense a debt. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is not contrary to justice, that both Ireland and America should contribute towards the discharge of the public debt of Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- How can I pay my debt? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I'm sure it's no pleasure to me to go today, but it's a debt we owe society, and there's no one to pay it but you and me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Even the enormous debt of Great Britain might in this manner soon be paid. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I suspect some imprudence of Mr. Franklin's on the Continent--with a woman or a debt at the bottom of it--had followed him to England. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Oh, no, my Lady; I would have paid any debt, and joyful. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then comes debt and the cutting down of his property. Plato. The Republic.
- I was always in debt to him, always under his thumb, always a working, always a getting into danger. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Then there was another man who had lost a thousand pounds, and went to the broker's next day to sell stock, that he might pay the debt. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And there was not only the actual debt; there was the certainty that in his present position he must go on deepening it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What is called the unfunded debt of Great Britain, is contracted in the former of those two ways. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He shot a man in a duel--he's over head and ears in debt, and he's robbed me and mine of the best part of Miss Crawley's fortune. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Papa said he could do nothing about the debt--if he paid this, there would be half-a-dozen more. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I do not understand economy, and am frightened to death at debts. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In consequence of this law, when Memphis was occupied the provost-marshal had forcibly collected all the evidences he could obtain of such debts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Why do not you article yourself then to a baker of it, I observed, and so pay some of your debts? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Secondly, In a private copartnery, each partner is bound for the debts contracted by the company, to the whole extent of his fortune. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Her half-brother had now ample means again, but what with debts and what with new madness wasted them most fearfully again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If her debts press, and she decides on sending it away, then we have our man ready, and we meet the Moonstone on its arrival in London. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To tell the truth and pay your debts? Plato. The Republic.
- Apart from debts and duns and all such drawbacks, I am not fit even for this employment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We live very quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Edison changed bookkeepers, but never thereafter counted anything real profit until he had paid all his debts and had the profits in the bank. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter; for _Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- You bring me a writing from Bulstrode to say he doesn't believe you've ever promised to pay your debts out o' my land. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I have paid my debts, and find money in my pocket. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- His efforts to paint historical pictures rather than portraits, and his share in paying off certain debts of his father’s, had made great inroads on the money he had saved. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It tells me she has debts she daren't acknowledge, that must be paid. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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