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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Other Word Forms

• debt servicing
  noun

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debt service

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

Its government created the fiscal space necessary to cope with disaster, mobilize financing, and rebuild, without missing a beat on its debt service or interrupting the remarkable compression in its cost of borrowing.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 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

Short-term growth prospects are poor because of the heavy debt service burden, rapid population growth, and vulnerability to climatic conditions.

From The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency