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| Main Entry: | debt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money owed to others |
| Synonyms: | IOU, albatross*, arrears, bad news*, baggage*, bill, bite*, capital, check, chit*, claim, commitment, credit, cuff*, damage*, debenture, debit, deficit, due, dues, duty, encumbrance, in the red, indebtedness, invoice, liability, manifest, mortgage, note, obligation, price tag*, promissory note, receipt, reckoning, responsibility, score, tab, tally, voucher, arrearage, below the line, dead horse, in hock, in the hole, outstandings, red ink |
| Antonyms: | asset, cash, credit, excess, profit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | debt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
bankrupt, beggared, behindhand, chargeable, due, gazetted, gratis, in arrears, in debt, in the gazette, incumbered, indebted, insolvent, involved, liable, minus, not paying, outstanding, owing, sperate, unable to make both ends meet, unpaid, unremunerated, unrequited, unrewarded, worse than nothing
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-verbs
be in debt; owe; incur a debt, contract a debt; run up a bill, run up a score, run up an account; go on tick; borrow [more]; run into debt, get into debt, outrun the constable., answer for, go bail for.
-adjectives
indebted; liable, chargeable, answerable for., in debt, in embarassed circumstances, in difficulties; incumbered, involved; involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt, over head and ears in debt; deeply involved; fast tied up; insolvent (not paying) [more]; minus, out of pocket., unpaid; unrequited, unrewarded; owing, due, in arrear, outstanding.
-phrases
aes alienum debitorem leve gravius inimicum facit [Latin]; "neither a borrower nor a lender be" [Hamlet].
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| Antonyms: | credit |
| Main Entry: | deficit spending |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spending in excess of revenue or income |
| Synonyms: | debt, in the red, budget deficit, compensatory spending, debt explosion, deficit financing, megadebt, negative cash flow, no assets, overspending, paying out in excess of income, pump priming |
| Main Entry: | dues |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payment for membership |
| Synonyms: | ante, assessment, charge, collection, contribution, custom, debit, debt, duty, fee, kickback, levy, liability, obligation, pay, protection, tax, toll, arrearage, charges, rates |
| Main Entry: | encumbrance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | albatross, ball and chain, cross, debt, duty, guilt, handicap, hindrance, impediment, load, millstone, monkey on one's back, obstruction, responsibility, saddle, thorn in one's side, weight, worry |
| Main Entry: | expense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cost, payment |
| Synonyms: | amount, assessment, bite*, bottom line*, budget, charge, consumption, debit, debt, deprivation, disbursement, duty, expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, insurance, investment, liability, loan, loss, mortgage, obligation, outdo*, outlay, output, overhead, price, price tag, rate, responsibility, risk, sacrifice, sum, surcharge, tariff, toll, upkeep, use, value, worth, decrement, out of pocket, payroll, spending |
| Notes: | expenditure refers to an actual outlay of money or goods, whereas expense has a more general sense, a charge or cost of goods or property; we have expenses, but we make expenditures |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
| Synonyms: | accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, need, perdition, privation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage, dispossession, impairment, mislaying, misplacing, retardation, squandering |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | mortgage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loan agreement |
| Synonyms: | contract, debt, deed, homeowner's loan, pledge, title |
| Main Entry: | obligation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
| Synonyms: | IOU*, accountability, agreement, bond, burden, business, call, cause, charge, chit*, commitment, compulsion, conscience, constraint, contract, debit, debt, dues, duty, engagement, liability, must, necessity, need, occasion, onus, part, place, promise, requirement, restraint, right, trust, understanding, accountableness, committal, devoir, due bill, ought |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want; extreme need, often financial |
| Synonyms: | bankruptcy, barrenness, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, famine, hardship, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessity, pass, paucity, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, vacancy, abjection, aridity, beggary, exiguity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, insolvency, necessitousness, pauperism, pennilessness, straits, underdevelopment |
| Antonyms: | abundance, affluence, luxury, richness, wealth |
| Main Entry: | reckoning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | computation, account |
| Synonyms: | IOU*, addition, arithmetic, bad news*, bill, calculation, charge, check, cost, count, debt, due, estimate, estimation, fee, grunt*, invoice, score, settlement, statement, summation, tab, working, adding, ciphering, counting, figuring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegal or immoral action |
| Synonyms: | anger, covetousness, crime, damnation, debt, deficiency, demerit, disobedience, envy, error, evil, fault, guilt, imperfection, iniquity, lust, misdeed, offense, peccadillo, pride, shortcoming, sloth, transgression, trespass, vice, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, evil-doing, gluttony, immorality, peccability, peccancy, sinfulness, tort, ungodliness, unrighteousness, veniality, wrongness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, goodness, morality |
| Main Entry: | debit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entry |
| Synonyms: | account, arrears, charge, debt, deficit, indebtedness, liability, obligation, accounts, amount due, bills, collectible |
| Antonyms: | credit, settlement, tally |
| Main Entry: | indebtedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficit |
| Synonyms: | debit, debt, liability, obligation, responsibility |
| Main Entry: | account payable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outstanding account |
| Synonyms: | bill, debt, invoice, liability, tab, balance due, unpaid bill |
| Main Entry: | account receivable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amount owing |
| Synonyms: | bill, debt, invoice, balance due, receivable |
| Main Entry: | bill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of charges; money owed |
| Synonyms: | IOU, bad news*, check, chit, damage*, debt, invoice, knock*, note, reckoning, score, statement, tab, itemized account, request for payment, statement of indebtedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | liability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | answerability, responsibility |
| Synonyms: | accountability, blame, burden, compulsion, debt, duty, indebtedness, obligation, onus, owing, susceptibility, accountableness, amenability, amenableness, arrearage, culpability, subjection |
| Antonyms: | irresponsibility, unaccountability |
| Main Entry: | score |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obligation; account payable |
| Synonyms: | account, bill, charge, debt, grievance, grudge, injury, injustice, invoice, reckoning, statement, tab, tally, total, amount due |
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