Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

national debt

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English

Syllables
na-tion-al debt
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any money owed by the government of a nation.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

national debts (plural)

Synonyms

government debt public debt sovereign debt

Questions

What does national debt mean?
Any money owed by the government of a nation.

How to pronounce national debt

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