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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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Lantry questioned Mastro on whether the Rent Guidelines Board has historically considered landlords’ debt service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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

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

So Japan needs money for defense, stimulus, currency support and debt service — all at once.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 20, 2025

India, however, has been challenged more recently by much lower foreign exchange reserves, higher inflation, and a large debt service burden.

From The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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