debt
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- n the state of owing something (especially money)
he is badly in debt - n money or goods or services owed by one person to another
- n an obligation to pay or do something
- The Increasingly Long Arm of Debt Collectors .
- Harvard Debt Doctor's Controversial Cure .
- Andrew Sullivan is right on target about why the budget deficits--and national debt--are so high: it's the Republicans, obviously.