national debt

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Noun

national debt (countable and uncountable, plural national debts)

(economics) Any money owed by the government of a nation.
Synonyms: government debt, public debt, sovereign debt
- 2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News‎^[1]:
  The only reference to the national debt - the reduction of which was once a top priority for Republicans of all stripes - was a passing mention of the subject during a litany of Barack Obama's economic failings.

Translations

money owed by the government of a nation

Armenian: սուվերեն պարտք (suveren partkʻ)
Bulgarian: държавен дълг m (dǎržaven dǎlg)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 國債／国债 (zh) (guózhài)
Esperanto: ŝtatŝuldo
Estonian: riigivõlg
Finnish: valtionvelka (fi)
French: dette publique (fr) f
German: Staatsverschuldung (de) f
Hungarian: államadósság (hu)
Irish: fiach náisiúnta m
Japanese: 国債 (ja) (こくさい, kokusai), 公債 (ja) (こうさい, kōsai)
Korean: 국채(國債) (ko) (gukchae), 공채(公債) (gongchae)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: statsgjeld m or f

Nynorsk: statsgjeld f
Russian: госуда́рственный долг (ru) m (gosudárstvennyj dolg), национа́льный долг m (nacionálʹnyj dolg)
Spanish: deuda pública f
Swedish: statsskuld (sv) c
Ukrainian: держа́вний борг m (deržávnyj borh)
Vietnamese: nợ quốc gia, nợ chính phủ, nợ công, quốc trái (vi)

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