English Dictionary

debt

IPA（発音記号）

/dɛt/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another. / The state or condition of owing something to another.

日本語の意味

借金：他者から借りた金銭や物品に対し、返済の義務が生じている状態。 / 債務：返済義務を伴う負債全般を指す。

She felt a moral debt to help her former teacher after his illness.

彼女は、元恩師が病気になった後に助けるべき義務を感じていた。

意味（1）

An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.

Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt / Of this proud king, who studies day and night / To answer all the debt he owes to you / Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.

意味（2）

The state or condition of owing something to another.

I am in your debt.

意味（3）

(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.

Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.

意味（4）

(law) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due

debts （ plural ）