PUBLIC DEBT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does public debt mean? 

• PUBLIC DEBT (noun)
  The noun PUBLIC DEBT has 1 sense:

1. the total of the nation's debts: debts of local and state and national governments; an indicator of how much public spending is financed by borrowing instead of taxation

  Familiarity information: PUBLIC DEBT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLIC DEBT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The total of the nation's debts: debts of local and state and national governments; an indicator of how much public spending is financed by borrowing instead of taxation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("public debt" is a kind of...):

debt (money or goods or services owed by one person to another)