indebtedness.

1. The condition or amount of owing money or another obligation.

2. A sense of gratitude for assistance or influence received.

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Words that belong together

• household indebtedness
• corporate indebtedness

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Household indebtedness increased despite stagnant wages.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, social science. Commonness: moderately common.