indebtedness

as in debt
something (as money) which is owed his total indebtedness exceeded a year's income

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Recent Examples of indebtedness Second, the novel’s apparent indebtedness to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. Alex Vernon may 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025 The rules on New York’s indebtedness are set by the state and the city’s statutory debt limit is capped by the state Constitution. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 27 May 2025 There is no set formula for when deficits and debts reach crisis levels, but this over-all level of indebtedness would exceed even that seen at the end of the Second World War, when the U.S. government had been, for years, financing the fight against the Axis powers. John Cassidy, New Yorker, 26 May 2025 One argument for the market’s ability to accept the backup in Treasuries so far is the way high government indebtedness contrasts with (enables?) far lower leverage in the corporate sector relative to equity values, as Bank of America illustrates here. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for indebtedness
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debt
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  • Damon Dash, the once high-flying hip-hop mogul who co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records with Jay-Z and Kareem Burke, has filed for personal bankruptcy in Florida, citing $25 million in debts and almost no assets.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The board has shown little appetite for rigorous capital oversight, leaving the company saddled with $500 million in high-cost debt that continues to drain flexibility.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Indebtedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indebtedness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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