national debt

noun

: the total amount of money that the government of a country owes to companies, countries, etc.

Examples of national debt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The combination of factors, including jobs, inflation, tariffs, growing inflation, market concerns about the economy going forward, and extreme national debt, make any decision by the Fed difficult. —Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025

France has faced spiralling national debt that reached three trillion euros earlier this year—or 114% of the country’s gross domestic product. —Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 10 Sep. 2025

Prime Minister François Bayrou is expected to resign after a sweeping majority voted to boot him from the minority government in a 364–194 vote over his controversial cuts to public spending in an attempt to reduce France’s national debt. —Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025

Higher tariff revenues mean less need for federal borrowing, resulting in significant savings on national debt interest payments. —Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025

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