national debt

English

Noun

national debt (countable and uncountable, plural national debts)

1. (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