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Bad debt   /bæd dɛt/   Listen
Bad debt

noun
1.
A debt that is unlikely to be repaid.





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"Bad debt" Quotes from Famous Books



... glad he had kept Uma clear of Apia and Papeete and these flash towns. At last he struck Fale-alii on this island, got some trade—the Lord knows how!—muddled it all away in the usual style, and died worth next to nothing, bar a bit of land at Falesá that he had got for a bad debt, which was what put it in the minds of the mother and daughter to come there and live. It seems Case encouraged them all he could, and helped to get their house built. He was very kind those days, and gave Uma trade, and there is no doubt he had ...
— Island Nights' Entertainments • Robert Louis Stevenson
... hast, thou hast paid a bad debt; there is too much in thee already. Be off! my patience is ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
... social, with their patrons. Extant today are orders for one quart of castor oil from Martha Washington, an order for paint from George Washington Parke Custis, and many other curious and historical records, including the comments on a bad debt. In 1801 Mr. Stabler ordered from his ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore


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