debt

Roget category 806

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.9. Possessive relations
›› 5.9.4. Monetary relations

#806. Debt

noun

debt, obligation, liability, indebtment^†, debit, score.
bill — check — account (credit) 805.
arrears, deferred payment, deficit, default, insolvency etc. (nonpayment) 808 — bad debt.
interest — premium — usance^†, usury — floating debt, floating capital.
debtor, debitor^† — mortgagor — defaulter etc. 808 — borrower.

verb

be in debt etc. adj. — owe — incur a debt, contract a debt etc. n. — run up a bill, run up a score, run up an account — go on tick — borrow etc. 788 — run into debt, get into debt, outrun the constable — run up debts, run up bills (spend) 809.
answer for, go bail for.
[notify a person of his indebtedness: ] bill, charge.

adjective

indebted — liable, chargeable, answerable for.
in debt, in embarrassed circumstances, in difficulties — incumbered, involved — involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt, over one's head in debt, over head and ears in debt — deeply involved — fast tied up — insolvent etc. (not paying) 808 — minus, out of pocket.
unpaid — unrequited, unrewarded — owing, due, in arrear^†, outstanding — past due.

phrase

aes alienum debitorem leve gravius inimicum aes alienum debitorem leve gravius inimicum facit [Lat.] — neither a borrower nor a lender be" [Hamlet].

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