debt burden (load)

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• debt burden — ➔ burden * * * debt burden UK US noun [C or U] (also debt load) ► ECONOMICS, FINANCE the amount of debt owed by a person, company, or country: »The EU is participating in the initiative to ease the debt burden of the highly indebted poorer… …   Financial and business terms

• debt load — ➔ load1 * * * debt load UK US noun [C, usually singular] ECONOMICS, FINANCE ► the amount of debt that a person, company, or country has, especially in relation to their ability to pay it back: »carry/cut/reduce a debt load a crushing/heavy/high… …   Financial and business terms

• burden — bur‧den [ˈbɜːdn ǁ ˈbɜːrdn] noun [countable] 1. something that causes people a lot of difficulty or worry: • In less prosperous areas the taxes were, for many, such a burden that they lived in poverty. 2. particular costs such as taxes or interest …   Financial and business terms

• load — A sales charge paid by an investor in some mutual fund shares or annuities. The sales charge may be a front end charge, a back end charge, or a 12b 1 charge. Also, an expression used to describe a mutual fund that imposes sales charges on… …   Financial and business terms

• burden — bur|den1 W3S3 [ˈbə:dn US ˈbə:rdn] n [: Old English; Origin: byrthen] 1.) something difficult or worrying that you are responsible for burden of ▪ The burden of taxation has risen considerably. burden on ▪ I don t like being a burden on other… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Debt Fatigue — When a debtor stops making payments on his or her debts and starts spending again after being overwhelmed by the amount of debt incurred and the seeming futility of the debt repayment process (the overall amount of debt owed does not appear to… …   Investment dictionary

• debt — noun 1 sum of money owed ADJECTIVE ▪ big, crippling, enormous, heavy, high, huge, large, massive, substantial ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• burden — noun 1 responsibility/worry ADJECTIVE ▪ enormous, great, heavy, huge, onerous, significant, substantial, terrible, tremendous ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• burden — [[t]bɜ͟ː(r)d(ə)n[/t]] ♦♦♦ burdens, burdening, burdened 1) N COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of/on n If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work. The developing… …   English dictionary

• burden — See body b.. clinical b. a b. that differs from genetic b. mainly in the added component of morbidity; a trait that is neither a clinical or a genetic lethal may be grossly disabling. genetic b. the genetic …   Medical dictionary

• burden — 1 noun 1 (C) something difficult or worrying that you are responsible for: heavy burden: We re in no position to take on another heavy financial burden. 2 (singular) formal the main meaning of what someone is saying 3 the burden of proof law the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English