debt load

noun

: the amount of money that someone owes

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Solomon stressed the solution to this monumental debt load does not lie primarily in tax hikes or new revenue streams. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2025 Assuming the Supreme Court doesn't strike down tariff policy triggering the money collected to be potentially refunded, many in Congress view a positive of the tariffs as money that could be used to pay down the country's increasingly high debt load. Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025 Throughout the 1950s, as private developers rapidly constructed new suburbs, school districts in Nassau County, where Levittown is located, increased their debt load by sixfold to meet the needs of their new residents. Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025 Dragged down by steep declines at its star brand Gucci and a bulging debt load, Kering has also been closing stores, selling real estate and reducing headcount after a dismal start to the year that saw group net profit plummet 46 percent in the first half. Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for debt load

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“Debt load.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/debt%20load. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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