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public debt

  1. the total debt of all governmental units, including those of state and local governments
  2. national debt

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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