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Bad debt   /bæd dɛt/   Listen
Bad debt

noun
1.
A debt that is unlikely to be repaid.





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"Bad debt" Quotes from Famous Books



... a bad debt. But he has a great soul. And don't prevaricate, Susan. Where have you been?" Mr. Hadley ...
— The Highwayman • H.C. Bailey
... had been justly and severely punished: whether I was ever to be rewarded for my subsequent honesty still remained to be proved; but I knew very well that most people would have written off such a reward as a bad debt. ...
— Japhet, In Search Of A Father • Frederick Marryat
... got down on the Pamunkey. Reckon I made a good trade, fer I found he was blind in one eye an' the squire took him fer a bad debt an' already had more hosses than ...
— Rodney, the Ranger - With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield • John V. Lane
... of the United States amount to almost 48 milliards of lire or francs at par, and the credits of Great Britain to 44 milliards. Great Britain owes about 21 milliards to the United States and is in turn creditor for some 44 milliards. She has a bad debt owing from Russia for more than 14 milliards, but 13 milliards are owing from France, about 12 milliards from Italy, and almost 2-1/2 milliards from Belgium. That is to say, that Great Britain could well pay ...
— Peaceless Europe • Francesco Saverio Nitti
... But it's not a good ad for us, George, to make a promise and not deliver the goods.... I'll have to write off your friend Ewart as a bad debt, that's what it comes to, and go to a ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... complacent, self-confident manner that his urbanity somewhat toned down. He dealt in artificial fertilizers and farming implements, and it was said that he never lost a customer and seldom made a bad debt. ...
— The Lure of the North • Harold Bindloss
... waved them away with a bitter levity which belonged to the same period. His view of his obligations was strictly chronological, and in taking it he counted, like the poet, only happy hours. The bad debt and the bad season went consistently together to oblivion; the sun of to-day's remarkable receipts could not be expected ...
— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)


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