Word a Day
debt
What does debt mean?
debt (noun): 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.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use debt in a sentence?
- He is badly in debt. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce debt?
/dɛt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does debt come from?
From Middle English dette, dett, borrowed from Old French dete (French dette), from Medieval Latin dēbita.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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