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indebtedness

/in-det-id-nis/US // ɪnˈdɛt ɪd nɪs //UK // (ɪnˈdɛtɪdnɪs) //

债务,负债,债项,债台高筑

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of being indebted.
    • : an amount owed.
    • : debts collectively.

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Examples

  • On “Song in E,” she admits that “it’s the mercy I can’t take,” the feelings of indebtedness to loved ones who continue to support her.

  • “NewLight did this both to resolve all past indebtedness owed by the hospital, but also as a gesture of good will,” Hughes said.

  • And we will enslave our children to a hopeless future of indebtedness.

  • I cant let you increase your indebtedness, and his pudgy hand lifted the basket and put it on the shelf behind him.

  • But a bank can retain a dividend that has been declared to reduce the indebtedness of the owner to the bank for his stock.

  • For, to do this is to reduce its assets or fund for paying its indebtedness, which the law will not permit to be done.

  • A corporation has no lien on its stock for the indebtedness of the owner unless conferred by charter or statute.

  • In reply to the question as to his indebtedness, the client or the patient is told: "What you please."