"technical debt" meaning in English

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        "(software engineering) The implied cost of additional future work caused by choosing an easy but inferior solution originally."
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          "sense": "implied cost of additional future work",
          "word": "技術債務"
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          "sense": "implied cost of additional future work",
          "word": "技术债务"
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          "sense": "implied cost of additional future work",
          "word": "技術負債"
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          "sense": "implied cost of additional future work",
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