heavy debt

collocation in English

meaningsofheavyanddebt

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heavy
adjective
uk
/ˈhev.i/us
/ˈhev.i/
weighing a lot, and needing effort to move ...
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debt
noun[C or U]
uk
/det/us
/det/
something, especially money, that is owed to someone else, or the state of ...
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(Definition ofheavyanddebtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofheavy debt

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He falls underheavydebtto many creditors.
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It was common knowledge that the principality was in a crisis due to aheavydebtburden.
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For that one owes them a veryheavydebt.
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After the war we may find men saddled withheavydebtand a fairly heavy rate of interest.
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There have been warnings that possibly an indemnity will not be allowed and that there will be aheavydebtimposed upon those countries.
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How will it help us if, by the turn of the century, such people face aheavydebt?
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To them the country owes aheavydebt.
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If those figures are borne out by the law of diminishing returns, there will be no surplus and there may be aheavydebt.
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The exchange is bad because they have aheavydebtand an inflated currency.
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Would there be a different tariff for newspapers inheavydebtas compared with those making ample profits?
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Following the introduction, with such indecent haste, of milk quotas, thousands of dairy farmers found themselves inheavydebt.
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The country is, in my judgment, under aheavydebtof gratitude to them all.
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That is quite wrong, as some of those countries now face falling commodity prices andheavydebtburdens.
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You would have avoided thisheavydebt, which is surely a bad way in which to start off a scheme.
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And yet we admit aheavydebtin their favour!
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Many of her constituents will remember that the country owes a veryheavydebtto the miners.
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They carry aheavydebtburden, and not just because of the student loan scheme.
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I paid off a veryheavydebtupon my property, educated all my children and put some thousands of men on the land.
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Most of the municipal undertakings are already carrying aheavydebtand finding it extremely difficult to balance their budgets.
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The nation owes aheavydebtto these people, and the debt should be honoured.
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