outstanding debt

collocation in English

meaningsofoutstandinganddebt

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outstanding
adjective
uk
/ˌaʊtˈstæn.dɪŋ/us
/ˌaʊtˈstæn.dɪŋ/
clearly very much better than what ...
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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 ofoutstandinganddebtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The elders accepted his bid for the stool primarily because he promised to take personal responsibility for the stool'soutstandingdebt.
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This has resulted in increasing the country'soutstandingdebtfrom 1977 onwards.
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The argument is that highly indebted countries are desperate to raise money in order to pay for the interest or capital on theoutstandingdebt.
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Table 1.4 shows that theoutstandingdebtdrastically increased in the period 1977 to 2005.
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Suppose instead that one imposed a restriction similar to (18):outstandingdebtneed not be repaid if the household holds real balances equal to theoutstandingdebt.
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That would be done by a statutory right to charge interest onoutstandingdebt.
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The receipt from right to buy is much higher than theoutstandingdebton each house which varies from area to area.
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That is the present position concerningoutstandingdebtand likely spending in the future.
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When land is disposed of, receipts will be used to payoutstandingdebt, and within agreed programmes to buy more land.
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Estimates of theoutstandingdebtare not readily available for these years.
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The company has anoutstandingdebtof £63 million on which it pays interest of about £5·5 million a year.
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Outstandingdebthas a severe effect on their cash flows and threatens their survival.
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We will continue to encourage authorities to reduce theiroutstandingdebtusing sums which they have set aside for this purpose.
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As it so happens, the reserve fund amounts almost exactly to theoutstandingdebt— £146,000 debt and £134,000 reserve fund.
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The report also showed that theoutstandingdebtin 1990–91 was £56.6 million.
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It does not even cover the interest charges on the money which the suppliers have to borrow to finance theoutstandingdebt.
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If relief were sought by the port ceasing to trade, the city would remain responsible for all theoutstandingdebt.
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Theiroutstandingdebtis of the order of £5 million.
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I am not saying that there is not a problem of people selling on their property and being unavailable to pay theiroutstandingdebt.
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