government debt
noun [U] GOVERNMENT, ECONOMICSDefinition
› the amount of money owed by a government to lenders at a particular time: Income tax rates are low, but government debt is at its highest level ever.
(Definition of government debt noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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