debtor nation

1. A nation that owes more to other nations than it is owed.

Example Sentences

Instead, the IMF's top debtor nation with a long history of defaults would only seek to manage existing debt with the global lender, Facundo Martinez Maino said, as Argentina's economy suffers a severe economic slump marked by triple-digit inflation and the steady deterioration of its local peso currency.

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Many think of Haiti as a debtor nation, but the fact is that former colonial powers might be the ones legally in debt to Haiti.

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Today, after nearly 40 years of neoliberal Reaganomics, we are the world’s largest debtor nation, and our national debt nearly outweighs our annual GDP.

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As interior minister of a weak debtor nation, Mr. Salvini had done what Britain’s euroskeptics can only dream of: smack down France and split the German establishment against itself.

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We entered that war a massive industrial power, but second ranked in terms of finance and trade and as a debtor nation to Europe.

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