debt

Meaning

An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
The state or condition of owing something to another.
Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due

loan

debt capital

public debt

mandatory injunction

borrow money

loan payable

religion

loan of money

obligation to pay

federal debt

sum due

ask for a loan

amount due

balance due

outstanding debt

be in debt

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɛt/

From Middle English dette, dett, borrowed from Old French dete (French dette), from Medieval Latin dēbita, from Latin dēbitum (“what is owed, a debt, a duty”), neuter of dēbitus, perfect passive participle of dēbeō (“I owe”), contraction of *dehibeō (“I have from”), from de (“from”) + habeō (“I have”). Doublet of debit. The unpronounced "b" in the modern English spelling is a Latinisation from the Latin etymon dēbitum.