(a.) Brought into debt; being under obligation; held to payment or requital; beholden.
(a.) Placed under obligation for something received, for which restitution or gratitude is due; as, we are indebted to our parents for their care of us in infancy; indebted to friends for help and encouragement.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We were the ones with the most over-indebted banks, the most over-indebted households and we had the biggest budget deficit of virtually any country, anywhere in the world.
(2) From being the eurozone's most indebted nation, Greeks can now expect to see their debt load cut to 124% of GDP in 2020 from the projected 190% of national outlay in 2014, under a package of measure that include a bond buy-back and various interest rate cuts on official loans.
(3) Mexico were indebted to a remarkable goalkeeping display when they shared the points with Brazil, and though Guillermo Ochoa’s stock has risen dramatically since that game, he might not be able to repeat the feat twice in a row.
(4) It positioned Kelela as a significant new vocalist, her phrasing indebted to pop but somehow elegantly haunting.
(5) French lenders Société Générale, BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole fell between 6.7% and 8% as rumours persisted that the extent of their bad loans to indebted eurozone countries would lead to France losing its AAA status within the next few days.
(6) In Athens at the weekend, Wen attempted to smooth over relations between China and the west by offering support for the euro and suggesting that China would participate in auctions of indebted nations' government bonds, including Greece, as they seek to refinance their struggling economies.
(7) It also means that both the public and private sector in Slovenia is heavily indebted.
(8) Speaking at the start of the G20 Summit in Seoul , the prime minister said the real test for the summit would be its ability sort out the big battle between the indebted west and the surplus economies of the east.
(9) American forensic medicine is forever indebted to pioneers like George Magrath of Boston, Milton Helpern of New York, LeMoyne Snyder of Michigan, and others, but the organizing of forensic medicine in the formal sense is due to the efforts of Charles Norris (Figure 1) and his successor Thomas A. Gonzales (Figure 2).
(10) The indebted, but diligent person, is more valuable to the lending industry.
(11) The four members of Haim – Danielle Haim, Este Haim, Alana Haim , long-haired sisters from Los Angeles who play pointy, 80s-indebted pop-rock with a drummer, Dash Hutton – gathered around a desktop computer, killing time before the final show of their European tour.
(12) Last month the Bank said some households were highly indebted and might struggle as unemployment rose, and separate data showed British households saved the lowest portion of their incomes since 2008 during the three months after the EU referendum.
(13) What many investors fear is that the only way out of this vicious circle is for Greece to walk away from its existing debts and try to go it alone – potentially triggering a wave of similar defaults in other indebted European countries, and jeopardising the euro itself.
(14) Tony Pulis acknowledged that his side were heavily indebted to Foster for the point.
(15) The heavily indebted Russian firm today published its flotation prospectus, revealing that it planned to raise $2.6bn (£1.6bn) in an initial public offering (IPO) of its shares this month in an attempt to cut debt and raise its international profile.
(16) Russian media reported he was in Cambodia and on the verge of selling his heavily indebted business.
(17) Soros proposed that Spain and Italy should be allowed to finance their deficits by issuing treasury bills with a 1% interest rate, and warned that the current policies were leaving the weaker eurozone nations "relegated to the status of third world countries that became highly indebted in a foreign currency.
(18) If power corrupts, powerful inequality indebts and ultimately enslaves.
(19) Previous experience shows how such increases in the levels of borrowing can leave households over-indebted and vulnerable to sudden changes in circumstances and drops in income that can pitch them into hardship.
(20) The World Bank estimates that more than one-third of the countries which have qualified for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief have been targeted by vulture funds.
Indebtedness
Definition:
(n.) The state of being indebted.
(n.) The sum owed; debts, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The residents reported that time demands and indebtedness were the major sources of stress in their residency programs.
(2) The extent to which indebtedness is holding back households, and possibly a return to consumer demand is also underlined.
(3) Instead, perhaps now there is a chance for a debate about the changes that are needed: a lasting industrial strategy, for example; a rebalancing and move away from our over-reliance on financial services; a re-evaluation of tax advantages encouraging indebtedness; real change to income distribution.
(4) House officers with extreme indebtedness (greater than $80,000) who are training in an expensive metropolitan area would accumulate an overall deficit approaching $75,000 or more, in excess of their undergraduate indebtedness, during a 5-year residency program.
(5) According to a new report from an influential thinktank, the Resolution Foundation, even in the most optimistic scenario – in which interest rates rise slowly to 3% by 2018 and economic growth is strong and well-distributed between the rich and poor – 1.12 million homeowners will be spending more than half of their take-home pay on mortgage repayments – this is a widely accepted indicator of over-indebtedness.
(6) Two explanations emerge: the first is over-indebtedness.
(7) Discriminant functions analyses of data from the 1983 survey of senior medical students by the Association of American Medical Colleges showed that the effects of scholarships must be taken into account when assessing the influence of indebtedness on medical students' career choices.
(8) Student indebtedness upon graduation from optometry school has long been cited as the major factor influencing practice mode choice.
(9) After all, if multiple borrowing is leading to over-indebtedness – and borrowers are struggling with repayments – lenders are likely to employ harsh collection tactics to cover their liabilities (leaving their clients to default on someone else’s loan).
(10) "Vulnerabilities associated with the indebtedness of some euro-area sovereigns and banks have resulted in severe strains in bank funding markets and financial markets more generally.
(11) Responding to the review, the chancellor conceded that Britain must keep a close eye on rising house prices and indebtedness, but welcomed the IMF's overall endorsement.
(12) Greenberg (1980) proposed that the magnitude of indebtedness (I) was a function of the recipient's benefits (B) from the aid attempt plus the donor's costs (C).
(13) Finally, we need to recognise market imperfections and the risk of over-indebtedness, which is exacerbated by the ready availability of credit from multiple organisations.
(14) Indebtedness was found not to be a predictor of willingness to locate in a socioeconomically deprived area.
(15) The shameful destruction of New Orleans, the Wall Street crash of 2008 and growing indebtedness to China, the collapse of so many industries and the shrill ideological divisions in Congress over monetary and fiscal policy can all be traced to habits ingrained in the Reagan years when the notion took hold that "the government is not the solution to our problems; the government is the problem".
(16) Denmark The continuing adjustment in the housing market and the high level of indebtedness in the household and private sector as well as drivers of external competitiveness, deserve continued attention.
(17) Doubly ironic that he makes no mention of the rise in personal indebtedness due to the fall in living standards over which he’s presided and the consequent threat to the economy posed by the impact of the inevitable eventual rise in interest rates.
(18) In this study the authors explored the relationship between medical students' expected indebtedness and their career choice.
(19) Popular audiences, who had never much cared for Allen (despite his earlier pictures' indebtedness to Bob Hope), took him to their hearts more warmly than before or since.
(20) Rapidly increasing demand for food parcels is driven by long-term problems of low income, indebtedness, and rising food prices.