accumulated debt
collocation in Englishmeaningsofaccumulateanddebt
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accumulate
verb
uk/əˈkjuː.mjə.leɪt/us/əˈkjuː.mjə.leɪt/
to collect a large number of things over a long period ...
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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 ofaccumulateanddebtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Consequently,accumulateddebtholdings could become so large that their future stream of endowments would not be sufficiently large to repay this debt.
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Older agents enjoy the initial increase in wages when they are supplying more labor, but they also haveaccumulateddebtand are going to face significantly higher interest payments.
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Typically, one would impose a restriction similar in spirit to (17): in the last period all previouslyaccumulateddebtmust be repaid and no additional borrowing can take place.
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I can also assure him that we want to do something about theaccumulateddebtof previous years.
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Subsidies are defined as current grants, as in the national income accounts, and therefore exclude the writing off ofaccumulateddebt.
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The final surpluses have at no point been sufficient to cover the interest cost oraccumulateddebtin wages and salaries.
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It is a story ofaccumulateddebtand increasing struggle, and it is made worse by two other factors.
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The tolls collected are not meeting the operating and maintenance costs, let alone contributing to paying off any of the rapidlyaccumulateddebt.
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It is worth noting that the authority'saccumulateddebthas risen from £39·3 million in 1974 to £90·9 million in 1980.
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However, it became evident in the early 1980s that they would be unlikely ever to generate sufficient surpluses to service and repay theiraccumulateddebt.
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Real indebtedness, loans taken out oraccumulateddebtfrom previous years, is substantially greater.
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Was he referring to theaccumulateddebtin capital and interest?
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I think it would be very undesirable that you should have anaccumulateddebtfor rent at the close.
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Yet theaccumulateddebtof the sport as a whole is less than the cost of implementing the report.
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The estimatedaccumulateddebtat the end of the 1987–88 financial year was £95 million.
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One difficulty that they felt was in understanding why they should have to pay back thisaccumulateddebt, because that is what it means.
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The immigration service envisages these powers being used sparingly and only when other attempts to recoveraccumulateddebthave failed.
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Indeed, there are today many countries whose total export earnings are being absorbed by essential minimum oil imports plus the servicing ofaccumulateddebt.
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Theaccumulateddebthad increased the whole time in the nationalised industries.
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However, it became evident in the early 1980s that in general they would be unlikely ever to generate sufficient surpluses to service and repay theiraccumulateddebt.
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