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n. The debt of a country, when large enough that servicing it has become difficult.
Usage examples of "debt burden".
The debt burden on his shoulders increased by another soul weight and made him kiss her temple.
A future that would include marriage to his beloved Manaroo, and the abandonment of this dangerous bounty hunter trade-but only if he could pull off the kind of financial score that would wipe out his debt burden and set him and Manaroo up in a new life.
He said he wanted to lift the debt burden from his children and grandchildren.
All treasure found was to be kept by the Philippine government to decrease the debt burden and pump up the sagging economy devastated by the incalculable financial rape of the Marcos reign.
Borrowing was used for consumption and financial speculation, including $1 trillion spent on mergers and acquisitions, with no indication of economic rationalization but ample evidence of a heavy debt burden, and a decline of 5 percent in corporate R&D as compared to a 5 percent increase for companies not involved in these practices, the NSF reported (for 1986-1987).