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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



... my misery. For my dishonesty, I 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
... a mistake in her purchase of the property in Mullen Lane, it was because she had been badly advised, if not actually cheated, by the sly old fellow who had for years owned the property which he had taken for a bad debt. ...
— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long
... thought of the place as something like the region of a "bad debt,"—where a portion of his wealth had been wrecked. Some knew it as the hated spot where they had suffered the loss of all their fortune; but others there were, who, untouched by the thought of material gain or loss, knew it as the scene of the wreck of ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne


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