debt load

noun

: the amount of money that someone owes

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For the last several months, Boeing has been conducting a review of potential divestitures to reduce its enormous net debt load of $45 Billion. —

Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024 The deal would have also seen Allen Media Group assume Paramount’s roughly $15 billion debt load. —

Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 4 Dec. 2024 Last year, the rating agency Fitch Ratings downgraded U.S. credit for the second time in the nation's history, citing the ballooning U.S. debt load and a weakening of governance, as well as the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, as factors in their decision. —

Max Zahn, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024 All three of the swing states facing higher rates of debt have been trending toward Trump, and the larger debt load could be a part of the reason, said Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor for the University of Tennessee at Martin. —

Suzanne Blake, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for debt load