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Definition of Debt
Debt

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.

A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.

An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.

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Debt Quotations

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.
Alexander Brome

A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin

Debt Translations

debt in Afrikaans is skuld
debt in Dutch is schuld
debt in German is Schuld, Verpflichtung, Schuld
debt in Italian is colpa
debt in Latin is debitum
debt in Norwegian is gjeld
debt in Spanish is deuda
debt in Swedish is skuld


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