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indebtedness

[ in-det-id-nis ]

noun

  1. the state of being indebted.
  2. an amount owed.
  3. debts collectively.


indebtedness

/ ɪnˈdɛtɪdnɪs /

noun

  1. the state of being indebted
  2. the total of a person's debts


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Other Words From

  • over·in·debted·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of indebtedness1

First recorded in 1640–50; indebted + -ness

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Example Sentences

And we will enslave our children to a hopeless future of indebtedness.

I cant let you increase your indebtedness, and his pudgy hand lifted the basket and put it on the shelf behind him.

But a bank can retain a dividend that has been declared to reduce the indebtedness of the owner to the bank for his stock.

For, to do this is to reduce its assets or fund for paying its indebtedness, which the law will not permit to be done.

A corporation has no lien on its stock for the indebtedness of the owner unless conferred by charter or statute.

In reply to the question as to his indebtedness, the client or the patient is told: "What you please."

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