Meanings (ES + gloss)
deuda
An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt / Of this proud king, who studies day and night / To answer all the debt he owes to you / Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
This long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.
deuda
The state or condition of owing something to another.
Hey! Wait! I've got a new complaint / Forever in debt to your priceless advice
I am in your debt.
adeudo • deuda • dita • débito • jarana • pufo
Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Im…
Phrases
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