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debt service

American  

noun

  1. the amount set aside annually in a fund to pay the interest and the part of the principal due on a debt.


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U.S. debt service payments totaled $963 billion during the first 10 months of this fiscal year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Even if the tariff money were specifically directed at debt service, it wouldn’t have done much to defray the roughly $1 trillion in interest the government will incur this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Debt, White emphasizes, is “dangerous in all states of nature” — in good times, if you’ve got really big debts, interest rates go up, and the cost of debt service goes up.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026

Of the $62 million in debt service payments the public had to make each year, $50 million had been coming from USAir, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported in 2003.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

Declining   fiscal deficits, tapering debt and debt service ratios, as well as   recent efforts to increase spending on infrastructure and social   services have heightened optimism over Philippine economic   prospects.

From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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