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Debt service

Debt service may refer to:

  • Interest payable on debt, especially on government debt
  • Debt service ratio
  • Debt service coverage ratio
  • External debt
  • Developing countries' debt
  • Credit analysis
  • Bureau of the Public Debt

Usage examples of "debt service".

In order to shave their debt service payments by $13,500 per year - when they had $18 million in book deals in the offing - they were willing to risk a public scandal just as Hillary was approaching a Senate race in a state where she'd never lived.

This year the debt service will be covered by a small hike in documentary stamps on real estate.

There was a flow of hundreds of billions of dollars from south to north, partly debt service, which far outweighs new aid by the late 1980s -- payment of interest on the debt, and so on, and other forms of capital flight.

Barter systems are the rule, and they usually work just fine, except when debt service turns into a form of slavery.

For example, another UNESCO report estimated that about half a million children in Africa die every year simply from debt service.

So for example, another UNESCO report estimated that in Africa about half-a-million children die every year simply from debt service.

But retrenchment with cash in the bank is quite a different matter from retrenchment with a heavy debt service.