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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

na·tion·al debt • n. the total amount of money that a country's government has borrowed, by various means.


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The size of the debt.(THE STAKES 2008)(national debt)
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The burdensome national debt. (fallacies about government debt)
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DEMOCRATS HAVE CAUSED NATIONAL DEBT TO RISE
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