debt

Main Entry:
debt [det]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: money owed to others
Synonyms: IOU, albatross, arrearage, arrears, bad news, baggage, below the line, bill, bite*, capital, check, chit, claim, commitment, credit, cuff, damage*, dead horse, debenture, debit, deficit, due, dues, duty, encumbrance, in hock, in the hole, in the red, indebtedness, invoice, liability, manifest, mortgage, note, obligation, outstandings, price tag, promissory note, receipt, reckoning, red ink, responsibility, score, tab, tally, voucher
Antonyms: asset, cash, credit, excess, profit
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Debt.
Category: 4. Monetary Relations
Synonyms:
-nouns
debt, obligation, liability, indebtment, debit, score., arrears, deferred payment, deficit, default, insolvency (nonpayment) [more]; bad debt., interest; premium; usance, usury; floating debt, floating capital., debtor, debitor; mortgagor; defaulter; borrower.
-verbs
be in debt; owe; incur a debt, contract a debt; run up a bill, run up a score, run up an account; go on tick; borrow; run into debt, get into debt, outrun the constable., answer for, go bail for.
-adjectives
indebted; liable, chargeable, answerable for., in debt, in embarassed circumstances, in difficulties; incumbered, involved; involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt, over head and ears in debt; deeply involved; fast tied up; insolvent (not paying); minus, out of pocket., unpaid; unrequited, unrewarded; owing, due, in arrear, outstanding.
-phrases
aes alienum debitorem leve gravius inimicum facit [Latin]; "neither a borrower nor a lender be" [Hamlet].
Antonyms: credit
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Main Entry: bill
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: account of charges; money owed
Synonyms: IOU, bad news, check, chit, damage*, debt, invoice, itemized account, knock*, note, reckoning, request for payment, score, statement, statement of indebtedness, tab
Main Entry: deficit spending
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spending in excess of revenue or income
Synonyms: budget deficit, compensatory spending, debt, debt explosion, deficit financing, in the red, megadebt, negative cash flow, no assets, overspending, paying out in excess of income, pump priming
Main Entry: dues
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: payment for membership
Synonyms: ante, arrearage, assessment, charge, charges, collection, contribution, custom, debit, debt, duty, fee, kickback, levy, liability, obligation, pay, protection, rates, tax, toll
Main Entry: encumbrance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: burden
Synonyms: albatross, ball and chain, cross, debt, duty, guilt, handicap, hindrance, impediment, load, millstone, monkey on one's back, obstruction, responsibility, saddle, thorn in one's side, weight, worry
Main Entry: expense
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cost, payment
Synonyms: amount, assessment, bite*, bottom line, budget, charge, consumption, debit, debt, decrement, deprivation, disbursement, duty, expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, insurance, investment, liability, loan, loss, mortgage, obligation, out of pocket, outdo, outlay, output, overhead, payroll, price, price tag, rate, responsibility, risk, sacrifice, spending, sum, surcharge, tariff, toll, upkeep, use, value, worth
Notes: expenditure refers to an actual outlay of money or goods, whereas expense has a more general sense, a charge or cost of goods or property; we have expenses, but we make expenditures
Main Entry: liability
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: answerability, responsibility
Synonyms: accountability, accountableness, amenability, amenableness, arrearage, blame, burden, compulsion, culpability, debt, duty, indebtedness, obligation, onus, owing, subjection, susceptibility
Antonyms: irresponsibility, unaccountability
Main Entry: loss
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost
Synonyms: accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, dispossession, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, mislaying, misplacing, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage
Antonyms: accomplishment, achievement, success, win
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