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bad debt en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A debt which cannot be recovered from the debtor, either because the debtor lacks the money to pay or because the debtor cannot be found and/or forced to pay.
   • The firm’s researchers also went through the public accounts of nearly all the major financial institutions in the world and constructed estimates of how much money they stood to lose from bad debts. 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

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Relateds

uncollectible · non-performing loan

Translations (12)

fr créance douteuse (unrecoverable debt) · cmn 壞賬 /坏账 (unrecoverable debt) · pl nieściągalne wierzytelności (unrecoverable debt) · th หนี้สูญ (unrecoverable debt) · de Forderungsausfall (unrecoverable debt) · ms hutang lapuk (unrecoverable debt) · cmn 呆賬 /呆账 (unrecoverable debt) · vi nợ xấu (unrecoverable debt) · fr créance irrécouvrable (unrecoverable debt) · pl nieściągalne należności (unrecoverable debt) · id utang buruk (unrecoverable debt) · fi luottotappio (unrecoverable debt)