huge debt
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhugeanddebt
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huge
adjective
uk/hjuːdʒ/us/hjuːdʒ/
extremely large in size ...
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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 ofhugeanddebtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I am not trying to make a party point, but the country owes ahugedebtto the regulators.
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The interest upon thathugedebt, with adequate redemption, will reach £450,000,000 a year.
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Many of those countries are struggling withhugedebtrepayments every year, which squeeze out the spending that they require on infrastructure and other things.
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We owe all those people, past and present, ahugedebt.
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Theirhugedebtburdens and capital investment requirements could make prospective buyers nervous about the prospect of investing in them.
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We owe ahugedebtto them for their courage, and their professionalism.
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The problem is past management mistakes and ahugedebt.
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To reform it economically, thathugedebtburden must be reduced.
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So one begins to see that they will have ahugedebtat the start of their career.
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Many of those people are also shown to havehugedebtproblems.
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The public owe ahugedebtof gratitude to two people.
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Thathugedebtand the debt servicing of something over £300 million cannot be transferred to the boroughs.
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I once again pay my tribute to the work of the police and the army to whom we all owe ahugedebtof gratitude.
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Local authorities incurhugedebtliabilities to provide housing, hospitals, schools, roads, sewerage, and so on.
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I do not see how developing countries can be expected to achieve sustainable development and at the same time meethugedebtrepayments.
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During the war wages have been heavily inflated and economic facts have been ignored, with the result that we have piled up ahugedebt.
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They find themselves inhugedebtand unable to pay, then the situation goes from bad to worse until they cannot cope with the burden.
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Much of thathugedebtis due to past wars.
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We owe them and their families ahugedebtand today is a good day to make that very clear.
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Although they tell us that they are non-political, the actuaries conveniently ignore the fact that there is building up thishugedebtin the future.
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