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debt service

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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

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

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

Nicaragua met the conditions   for additional debt service relief in December 2000.

From The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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