debt ceiling

English

Alternative forms

• debt-ceiling

Noun

debt ceiling (plural debt ceilings)

1. (politics, economics) The limit up to which an entity (usually a government) is legally allowed to borrow.

Related terms

• fiscal cliff

Translations

limit

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 債務上限／债务上限 (zhàiwù shàngxiàn), 债务上限 (zhàiwù shàngxiàn)

• Finnish: velkakatto
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schuldengrenze f, Schuldenobergrenze f
• Hungarian: adósságplafon