funded debt

American  

noun

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

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funded debt British  

noun

1. the part of the national debt, consisting mostly of consols, that the government has no obligation to repay by a specified date

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Etymology

Origin of funded debt

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

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funded debt

It had about $3.4 billion in funded debt obligations.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 14, 2026

At the same time, the company faced “mounting funded debt and lease obligations,” the filing said, and these factors all “snowballed into a liquidity crisis.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Bankruptcy Court, Joann said it had received about $132 million in new financing and expected to reduce its balance sheet’s funded debt by about $505 million.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2024

The company owns approximately $4 billion in funded debt, while making roughly $200 million in annual interest payments, according to Rite Aid financials, which has led to an unstable capital structure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2023

There was in none of those cases any funded debt, in the sense of bond obligations, held in the markets of the world.

From Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses by Whitelaw Reid