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national debt
noun
- the financial obligations of a national government resulting from deficit spending.
national debt
noun
- the total outstanding borrowings of a nation's central government Also called (esp US)public debt
Notes
Word History and Origins
Origin of national debt1
Example Sentences
Yes, gridlock frustration and national debt nausea are understandable.
He says he plans to focus on the national debt and budget issues, government and tax reform.
Twitter, like the national debt or Lindsay Lohans's sobriety, is in a constant state of flux.
The biggest chunk of that goes to pay interest on the national debt.
But two failed wars and a massive national debt have made their ultra-expensive, ultra-bloody foreign policy vision untenable.
Reduction of national debt, whatever arrangements may be made for it, can only be effected by taxation.
And the check; it did not resemble in size the national debt, as dinner checks usually do in America.
Will not the national debt itself be the means, at least a temptation to continue, if not increase the luxury?
To raise such a sum seemed as impossible to poor Judith as to pay the National Debt.
Though the war had added a hundred millions to the national debt, the burden was hardly felt.
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