foreign debt
noun
: the amount of money that a country owes other countries
the nation's growing foreign debt
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In 2022, Ghana—the world’s sixth-biggest producer of gold and number two exporter of cocoa—defaulted on its domestic and foreign debt obligations.
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
The Treasury’s catch-all basket for global economic cleanup, called the Exchange Stabilization Fund, has been used in novel ways before, but snapping up foreign debt is unusual.
—Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2025
The sanctions also slammed the local currency, driving up the cost of the company’s foreign debt by several million dollars.
—Alex Budak, Harvard Business Review, 5 Aug. 2025
In these transactions, a country reduces its foreign debt by giving a company an equity stake in a local company or property.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 16 July 2025
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
The Treasury’s catch-all basket for global economic cleanup, called the Exchange Stabilization Fund, has been used in novel ways before, but snapping up foreign debt is unusual.
—Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2025
The sanctions also slammed the local currency, driving up the cost of the company’s foreign debt by several million dollars.
—Alex Budak, Harvard Business Review, 5 Aug. 2025
In these transactions, a country reduces its foreign debt by giving a company an equity stake in a local company or property.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 16 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for foreign debt
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“Foreign debt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foreign%20debt. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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