"national debt" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: national debts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} national debt (countable and uncountable, plural national debts)
  1. (economics) Any money owed by the government of a nation. Wikipedia link: government debt Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Economics Synonyms: government debt, public debt, sovereign debt Translations (money owed by the government of a nation): սուվերեն պարտք (suveren partkʻ) (Armenian), държавен дълг (dǎržaven dǎlg) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 國債 (Chinese Mandarin), 国债 (guózhài) (Chinese Mandarin), ŝtatŝuldo (Esperanto), riigivõlg (Estonian), valtionvelka (Finnish), dette publique [feminine] (French), Staatsverschuldung [feminine] (German), államadósság (Hungarian), fiach náisiúnta [masculine] (Irish), 国債 (kokusai) (alt: こくさい) (Japanese), 公債 (kōsai) (alt: こうさい) (Japanese), 국채 (gukchae) (alt: 國債) (Korean), 공채 (gongchae) (alt: 公債) (Korean), statsgjeld [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), statsgjeld [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), госуда́рственный долг (gosudárstvennyj dolg) [masculine] (Russian), национа́льный долг (nacionálʹnyj dolg) [masculine] (Russian), deuda pública [feminine] (Spanish), statsskuld [common-gender] (Swedish), держа́вний борг (deržávnyj borh) [masculine] (Ukrainian), nợ quốc gia (Vietnamese), nợ chính phủ (Vietnamese), nợ công (Vietnamese)

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