Definitions for debt

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Spelling: [det]
IPA: /dɛt/

Debt is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in debt (bdet).

Definitions for debt

noun

  1. something that is owed or that one is bound to pay to or perform for another:
  2. a liability or obligation to pay or render something:
  3. the condition of being under such an obligation:
  4. Theology. an offense requiring reparation; a sin; a trespass.

Origin of debt

1175-1225; Middle English dette Old French Latin dēbita (neuter plural, taken in VL as feminine singular), noun use of dēbitus, past participle of dēbēre to owe, contraction of *dēhabēre, equ

Examples for debt

These low-income students take on debt and are also the least likely to finish.

By 2013, the company owed the lender about $35,000 per month—solely in interest payments—and imploded in debt.

He took a couple of drinks to celebrate his approaching immunity from debt.

If you tell me that he is dead, I am in your debt and bound to you for life.

You see a lot of married men—the debt, the unemployment has broke up the family.

Between March 31 and June 31, the amount of debt held by the public actually shrank by $47 billion.

The company returned in May 2013 to Wall Streetto raise $600 million in debt and another $312 million in stock.

Is it true that he is so much in debt, and is so very—very profligate?

I'm not going to run into debt or have trouble with tradesmen about money just because of your pride.

The church was in debt—everything in Brookfield was, except the town pump.

Word Value for debt
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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