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national debt
noun
- the financial obligations of a national government resulting from deficit spending.
national debt
noun
- the total outstanding borrowings of a nation's central government Also called (esp US)public debt
Notes
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of national debt1
Example Sentences
What Trump said: Now it's our turn to prosper, and in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt, and it'll all happen very quickly.
They claim to be the party of fiscal conservatism and their leaders bemoan the national debt, but this plan blows up the debt.
It is also pointed out that Germany's national debt is vastly smaller than the UK's as a share of national income.
鈥淭he country is going bankrupt,鈥 he said, referring to the growing national debt.
Pistorius told German TV that removing defence from national debt rules was not about armaments as much as "the security of our country - nothing more, nothing less".
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