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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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Fitch also noted Argentina’s foreign currency debt service has stepped up and will rise further in 2027 ahead of elections.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Less debt service = greater ability to withstand downside shocks to purchasing power.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 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

The government also   implemented a Five-Year Plan covering 1986-90 to restructure the   economy and reschedule external debt service payments in cooperation   with the International Development Association and Western lenders.

From The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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