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Indebted

[in-det-id]

adjective

committed or obligated to repay a monetary loan: He was indebted to his friend for a large sum.

obligated for favors or kindness received: He was indebted to her for nursing him through pneumonia.

Origin:
1175–1225; in-² + debt + -ed²; replacing Middle English endetted < Old French endetté, past participle of endetter to involve in debt (see en-¹)

Related forms

pre·in·debt·ed, adjective

pre·in·debt·ed·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. bound. 2. beholden, grateful.

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Example Sentences

Of course the indebted countries have responsibility for their own dire straits.

While prosperity persisted, indebted consumers experienced few deleterious effects.

The same diagnosis may explain similar disappointments in other highly indebted rich countries.

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Of course the indebted countries have responsibility for their own dire straits.

While prosperity persisted, indebted consumers experienced few deleterious effects.

The same diagnosis may explain similar disappointments in other highly indebted rich countries.

Consequently, the impoverished and indebted weavers end up in debt to traders.

Not a way indebted to the meat lobby or the pharma lobby.

Little do they know how much my stomach is truly indebted to their generosity.

We are once more indebted to the management of the line for valued additions to our foreign files.

The video features slick animation, an ominous soundtrack, and interviews with indebted students and critical professors.

The indebted will cut their spending to free up the extra cash to service their loans.

Musicians are indebted and inspired by older music that helps them find their own voice.

Colonial farmers were bedeviled by and indebted to stones.

We will forever be indebted to him for his contributions to linguistics.

Fiscal multipliers will probably be lower in heavily indebted economies than in prudent ones.

Not lone is the sportsman indebted to him, but the ichthyologist as well, for knowledge of.

Indebted governments face an unenviable menu of options.

Anxious investors feared the situation could spin out of control, igniting crises in other heavily indebted euro zone countries.

Global demand needs rebalancing, away from indebted rich economies and towards more spending in the emerging world.

Many heavily indebted countries cannot afford to repay their.

The national currency has lost almost half its value in the past two years, and the country is now heavily indebted.

The immediate goal of the plan is to give hopelessly indebted countries a chance to wipe the slate clean.

Indebted farmers and business people have not been offered debt relief by the banks, though they have lost all sources of income.

The immediate goal of the plan is to give hopelessly indebted nations a chance to wipe the slate clean.

One quick nitpick-it is not the case that the entire world is too indebted to consume.

Property owners who are dangerously indebted while still in possession of their homes.

Vodafone has a rich parent company but the others are now uncomfortably indebted.

The funds invest in bank loans used to finance leveraged buyouts or other operations involving heavily indebted companies.

Germany has, for now, dropped its demand that heavily indebted countries should lose voting rights.

He is worried that an increasingly indebted airline industry could leverage itself into financial ruin.

But burdening a heavily indebted firm with yet more debt could only ever have provided temporary respite.

No one finds fault with an indebted family that cuts back on spending, makes do with less and works harder to balance its books.

But the sheer scale of rate cuts over the past three months is helping many indebted households.

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World English Dictionary

indebted (ɪnˈdɛtɪd)

—*adj*
1.	owing gratitude for help, favours, etc; obligated
2.	owing money

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Word Origin & History

indebted

late 14c., "owing money," from O.Fr. endette, pp. of endetter "to involve in debt," from en- "in" + dette "debt" (see debt). Fig. sense of "under obligation for favors or services" first attested 1560s.

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