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View synonyms for funded debt

funded debt

noun

  1. a debt, as in the form of bonds, having a long period of maturity.


funded debt

noun

  1. the part of the national debt, consisting mostly of consols, that the government has no obligation to repay by a specified date
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of funded debt1

First recorded in 1810–20
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Example Sentences

When the world was again at rest the funded debt of England amounted to eight hundred millions.

That the entire funded debt of the United States was long since paid is matter of history.

The national banks to-day hold for this purpose about two-thirds of the total funded debt of the United States.

The interest of the national funded debt is paid at the bank in the same kind of paper in which the taxes are collected.

Most of the funded debt of the United States was represented by five-twenty bonds.

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