debt
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
debt/det/
▶noun
- 1 money owed or due.
■ the state of owing money.
- 2 a feeling of gratitude for a favour.
– phrases
be in someone's debt owe gratitude to someone for a favour.
be in someone's debt owe gratitude to someone for a favour.
– origin ME dette: from OFr., based on L. debitum ‘something owed’, past part. of debere ‘owe’.
'debt' also found in these Oxford entries:
acquit
- acquittance
- afloat
- amortize
- arrestment
- bad debt
- Bank of England
- bill of sale
- CCJ
- clear
- composition
- compound
- contract
- deadweight
- debenture
- debit
- debt collector
- debt of honour
- debt security
- delinquency
- double
- dun
- extinguish
- finance
- floating debt
- forbearance
- funded debt
- garnish
- geared
- gearing
- guaranty
- hock
- hole
- indebted
- indulgence
- interest
- IOU
- legal tender
- letter of comfort
- lien
- liquidate
- mortgage
- national debt
- obligation
- oxygen debt
- pay
- pledge
- queer
- quietus
