massive debt
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmassiveanddebt
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massive
adjective
uk/ˈmæs.ɪv/us/ˈmæs.ɪv/
very large in size, amount, ...
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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 ofmassiveanddebtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Given themassivedebtnow of most international economies, who arbitrates where cancellation is appropriate?
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The reduction of ourmassivedebtburden was essential.
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It has involved us running intomassivedebt.
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I know that my local authority has amassivedebtas a result of necessary investment in sewers and mains.
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The countries in which they live labour under amassivedebtburden—£784 billion of it.
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It has managed to conquer itsmassivedebtrepayments; the figure is now below £2 million and falling year by year.
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I suspect that it is associated sometimes withmassivedebtand sometimes it is associated with uncertainty.
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Today he can transfer it only with amassivedebtwhich cannot be paid off unless the donor has independent means.
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I suggest that the time has come for a more extentive capital reconstruction to take thismassivedebtoff the shoulders of the coal industry.
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He made it absolutely clear thatmassivedebtwas a bad thing.
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There is amassivedebtand no equity.
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Of course, it continues to operate at a heavy loss because of themassivedebtaround its neck.
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However, that has not stopped it having a low standard of living for the vast majority of its people, and building up amassivedebt.
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She has amassivedebtto repay; and it will take her generations to repay it.
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The need to service themassivedebtand meet the demanding repayment schedule would be likely to have twin effects.
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There are other areas where there is a far moremassivedebtbut where no effort has been made to cut off supplies.
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He was formerly a banker and perhaps his greatest achievement has been to persuade the money markets to accept suchmassivedebt.
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Britain has long been in the forefront of the international effort to release the poorest countries of the world from the chains ofmassivedebt.
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I find it disgraceful that those of us who benefited from the grant system should be the very generation to imposemassivedebtproblems on future generations of students.
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That is amassivedebtburden.
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