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NATIONAL DEBT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does national debt mean?
• NATIONAL DEBT (noun)
The noun NATIONAL DEBT has 1 sense:
1. the debt of the national government (as distinguished from the debts of individuals and businesses and political subdivisions)
Familiarity information: NATIONAL DEBT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The debt of the national government (as distinguished from the debts of individuals and businesses and political subdivisions)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("national debt" is a kind of...):
debt (money or goods or services owed by one person to another)
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