municipal debt

collocation in English

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municipal
adjective
uk
/mjuːˈnɪs.ɪ.pəl/us
/mjuːˈnɪs.ə.pəl/
of or belonging to a town ...
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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 ofmunicipalanddebtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is the burden of the 1960s—the national debt, themunicipaldebt, the industrial debt and the individual debt.
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The able-bodied poor were looked upon as individuals plunging the various cities into heavymunicipaldebt.
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What is going to happen to thismunicipaldebt?
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That is wiped out themunicipaldebt, wiped out; the debentures upon industry, wiped out.
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We might then get an exact picture of the yearly increase of debt—not only national andmunicipaldebt, but fixed interest debt of every kind.
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The whole of hermunicipaldebthas disappeared with the dissipation of her exchange.
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In regard to housing alone there is amunicipaldebtof more than £400,000,000, and the loan charges fall upon the tenant.
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If you take away the assets of that town you reduce the value of that town: you jeopardise the money of the people who have invested in themunicipaldebt.
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In the ensuing decades rapid urban development demonstrated a correspondingly explosive growth inmunicipaldebt.
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Municipaldebtin the same year was 487,000.
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The 1873 panic and years of depression that followed put an abrupt but temporary halt to the rapid growth ofmunicipaldebt.
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Over the five-year period, themunicipaldebtwas reduced by twelve million dollars.
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Prewarmunicipaldebtburst into a new period of rapid growth for an ever-increasing variety of uses.
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Paulson was reportedly investing the territoriesmunicipaldebtand real estate developments, and was building a home at a resort.
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The second category of debts is municipal debts.
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Astounding figures can be quoted to show how the problem of commercial and municipal debts, ordinary debts between the moneylender and borrower, are paralysing trade all over the world.
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We have only to look at the magnitude of the municipal debts to realise how very difficult it is going to be to raise money on those lines.
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Property tax revenues collapsed, and the city could not make payments on its municipal debts.
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