- the state of being indebted
- the amount owed; all one's debts
noun
The definition of indebtedness is the state of owing something (usually money) to someone, or the total amount owed.
An example of indebtedness is when you owe the bank $100 and your friend $200.
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indebtedness
noun
- The state of being indebted.
- Something owed to another.
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Noun
(usually uncountable, plural indebtednesses)
- State of owing money; being in debt.
- The state of owing something or being under obligation to someone.
- The amount owed.
- All debts totalled.
Origin
From indebted + -ness.
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indebtedness - Legal Definition
n
- The condition of owing money to another.
- The money owed.
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Sentence Examples
- In addition to the indebtedness of the national government, the individual states have also incurred funded debts of their own.
- Secondly, besides the plagiarist Tudebod, there are the artistic redacteurs of the Gesta, who confess their indebtedness, but plead the bad style of their original - Guibert of Nogent, Balderich of Dol, Robert of Reims (all c. 1120-1130), and Fulco, the author of a Virgilian poem on the Crusades, continued by Gilo (ob.
- Table B shows the total indebtedness of the Ottoman Empire, exclusive of tribute loans.
- In 1880-81 there was a consolidation and conversion of the republic's foreign indebtedness through a new loan of £2,750,000 at 3%, and in 1896 a new loan of 50,000,000 bolivares (£1,980,198) for railway guarantees and other domestic obligations.
- The constitution limits the indebtedness of a county to 5% of the value of its taxable property and that of a city, town or school district to 3%, except that the question may be submitted to a vote of the tax-payers affected when it is deemed necessary to construct a sewerage system or procure a water supply.
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Words near indebtedness in the dictionary
- indebtedness
- indebtednesses
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- indebtment