debts
SayDETS/dɛts/
- 1Plural of debt.
The company struggled to repay the debts it had taken on during the expansion.
Mounting gambling debts forced him to sell the house.
Note
The plural counts separate obligations, one loan or bill at a time: gambling debts, the debts a company takes on. The singular can also be a mass noun for the condition of owing itself, as in falling into debt, and that general sense does not take the plural. What is owed need not be money: the plural also covers duties and services owed to another.
debts is a form of debt
debt, noun: Money that a person or organization owes and must pay to another, usually arising from a loan or other financial transaction. Full entry
- Forms
- debtdebts plural
- Spelling
- debt → debts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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