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national debt

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national debt
n.
The total financial obligations of a national government.
national debt
n
(Economics) the total outstanding borrowings of a nation's central government Also called (esp US) public debt
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Noun1.national debtnational debt - the debt of the national government (as distinguished from the debts of individuals and businesses and political subdivisions)
debt - money or goods or services owed by one person to another
Translations
national debt n → debito pubblico
national debt n → debito pubblico


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At the man's were a Member, an Engineer, a Payer-off of the National Debt, a Poem on Shakespeare, a Grievance, and a Public Office, who all seem to be utter strangers to Veneering.
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Immensely rich, sir; and I could, without missing it, pay the national debt of France.
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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions.
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