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debt exposure

 
 
noun [C or U]

Definition

FINANCE the degree to which a company or country risks losing money because it has lent money that may not be paid back: Investors are becoming increasingly worried about the insurance industry’s debt exposure to bank bonds.
(Definition of debt exposure noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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