ALL meanings of national debt
na·tion·al debt
N n - noun national debt money owed by a country 1
- noun national debt the financial obligations of a national government resulting from deficit spending. 1
- countable noun national debt A country's national debt is all the money that the government of the country has borrowed and still owes. 0
- noun national debt the total outstanding borrowings of a nation's central government 0
- noun national debt the total debt incurred by the central government of a nation, specif. by the federal government of the U.S. 0
- noun national debt A country's national debt is the amount of debt owed by the government of that country. 0