Synonyms for public debt


Grammar : Noun


Définition of public debt

  • As in national debt : noun money owed by country
Example sentences :
  • It was not contended that a public debt was a public blessing.
  • Extract from : « The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5) » by John Marshall
  • Its property is appropriated to the extinction of the public debt.
  • Extract from : « A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4 » by Henry Charles Lea
  • When the country was annexed, the public debt amounted to £301,727.
  • Extract from : « The Last Boer War » by H. Rider Haggard
  • The state of the finances, and the public debt, claimed his first attention.
  • Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. I of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton
  • The public debt has doubled since Jamaica became a Crown colony.
  • Extract from : « The English in the West Indies » by James Anthony Froude
  • The public debt of Austria, without Hungary, was 83.17 milliard kronen.
  • Extract from : « The New Germany » by George Young
  • So far from lessening the public debt, you ought to increase the creditors.
  • Extract from : « Bureaucracy » by Honore de Balzac
  • All the interest of the public debt went to foreign creditors.
  • Extract from : « The History of Freedom » by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
  • The other half was set apart to the payment of the public debt.
  • Extract from : « Joseph Bonaparte » by John S. C. Abbott
  • This, for the most part, is the capital and interest for the public debt.
  • Extract from : « Essays in Liberalism » by Various

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