credit card debt

collocation in English

meaningsofcredit,cardanddebt

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credit
noun
uk
/ˈkred.ɪt/us
/ˈkred.ɪt/
praise, approval, ...
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card
noun
uk
/kɑːd/us
/kɑːrd/
a small, rectangular piece of card or plastic, often with your signature, photograph, or other information proving who you are, that allows you to do something, such as make a payment, get money from a bank, or enter a ...
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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 ofcredit,cardanddebtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Since it includes mortgage as well as creditcarddebt, it can be a substantial amount compared with annual income.
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It is not as though the scheme takes no account of people's earnings—that would be creditcarddebt.
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Half of all consumer debt is creditcarddebt.
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It will make students much less dependent on creditcarddebt, which has much higher interest rates.
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One concerned a client on income support who had run up a creditcarddebtto pay for his drug addiction.
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It is not like a creditcarddebt.
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Of that creditcarddebt, an increasing proportion of customers are now repaying their outstanding commitments in full every month.
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This is not creditcarddebt.
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He had bought himself a new stereo, and was most excited about almost being out of creditcarddebt.
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Club members share money-saving techniques, financial planning advice, dealing with creditcarddebtand how to improve credit scores.
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Creditcarddebtis said to be higher in industrialized countries.
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If students could not afford the training, the article states, they were encouraged to take out loans and carry creditcarddebt.
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Assuming that this household would have a $250,000 mortgage, $40,000 in car loans, and $10,000 in creditcarddebt, its debts would total $300,000.
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This effectively reduced the cost of borrowing funds and offered an attractive tax incentive over traditional methods of borrowing (such as creditcarddebt).
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They bootstrapped the company for several years, financing the startup with a $10,000 creditcarddebt.
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Debt consolidation is often advisable in theory when someone is paying creditcarddebt.
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In contrast to creditcarddebt, which often can be discharged through bankruptcy proceedings, this option is not generally available for educational loan debt.
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She encouraged people to be honest with themselves about what they could afford and gave advice on getting rid of creditcarddebt.
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By 2005, the total creditcarddebthad increased to $735 billion.
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