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Definition of National debt
1. Noun. The debt of the national government (as distinguished from the debts of individuals and businesses and political subdivisions).
Definition of National debt
1. Noun. (economics) Any money owed by the government of a nation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of National Debt
Literary usage of National debt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent (1889)
"national debt. The fir?. mention of parliamentary security for a debt of the ...
The present national debt may be said to have commenced in the reign of ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"The national debt.—In order to take a clear and comprehensive view of the nature
of this national debt, it must first be premised, that after the revolution ..."
3. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"But, after all, what more need be said than the epitaph proposed for his grave : "
He gave the people bread" ? MODERN IMPROVEMENTS AND OUR national debt. ..."
4. The Government of the United States: National, State, and Local by William Bennett Munro (1919)
"... CHAPTER XVI THE BORROWING POWER, THE national debt, AND THE NATIONAL BANKING
SYSTEM Nor all national expenditures can be defrayed out of Purpose income. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"Thus, notwithstanding the far heavier taxation in the United Kingdom during the
preceding seven years, our burden of national debt in 1921 was almost as ..."
6. Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Public Affairs Information Service (1920)
"Britain's national debt: an analysis of its various elements, table British
Chamber Commerce J (Shanghai) ns 15:242-4 Jl '20 Britain's true wealth and the ..."
7. The Party Battles of the Jackson Period by Claude Gernade Bowers (1922)
""The national debt is paid," he said. "This month of January, 1835, in the
fifty-eighth year of the Republic, Andrew Jackson being President, the national ..."
8. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield ; with a Review of the by James Gillespie Blaine (1884)
"FOUNDED ON national debt. rI 1HE Secretary of the Treasury had not failed to see
that a con- -L- stant conflict and damaging competition must ensue between ..."
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