Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sovereign debt

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English

Syllables
sovereign debt
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
1
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The amount of money outstanding that was borrowed by a government in order to finance expenditure not covered by taxation.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

sovereign debts (plural)

Synonyms

government debt national debt public debt

Questions

What does sovereign debt mean?
The amount of money outstanding that was borrowed by a government in order to finance expenditure not covered by taxation.

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