debt
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)The state or condition of owing something to another.
I am in your debt.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)(finance) 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.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)(law) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due
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ine-pro From Middle English dette, dett, borrowed from Old French dete (dette), from dēbita, from Latin dēbitum (what is owed, a debt, a duty), neuter of dēbitus, perfect passive participle of dēbeō (to owe), contraction of *dehibeō (I have from), from de (from) + habeō (to have). debit. Displaced native eofot.