external debt
noun [U]Definition
› ECONOMICS, FINANCE the total amount of money that a country owes to other countries: The country's external debt is a staggering $38bn and its takes half the annual budget to service it. → See also foreign debt
(Definition of external debt noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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