foreign debt

English

Noun

foreign debt (usually uncountable, plural foreign debts)

1. (countable, finance) A debt that a country, an organization in a country, or a resident individual in a country owes to those in other countries.
2. (uncountable, economics) An aggregate amount of such debts.

Synonyms

• external debt

Coordinate terms

• domestic debt

Translations

debt owed to foreigners

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: արտաքին պարտք (hy) (artakʻin partkʻ)
• Belarusian: знешні доўг m (znješni doŭh)
• Bulgarian: външен дълг m (vǎnšen dǎlg)
• Catalan: deute exterior
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對外債務／对外债务 (duìwài zhàiwù), 对外债务 (duìwài zhàiwù), 外債／外债 (zh) (wàizhài), 外债 (zh) (wàizhài)

• Czech: zahraniční dluh m
• Danish: udlandsgæld
• Esperanto: ekstera ŝuldo
• Estonian: välisvõlg
• Finnish: ulkomaanvelka
• French: dette extérieure f
• Galician: débeda externa f
• German: Auslandsschuld (de) f, Auslandsverschuldung f
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• Italian: debito estero (it) m
• Japanese: 対外債務 (たいがいさいむ, taigai saimu)
• Lithuanian: užsienio skola
• Polish: dług zewnętrzny m
• Portuguese: dívida externa f
• Romanian: datorie externă f
• Russian: вне́шний долг (ru) m (vnéšnij dolg), вне́шняя задо́лженность f (vnéšnjaja zadólžennostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: vanjski dug m
• Spanish: deuda externa f
• Swedish: utlandsskuld c
• Turkish: dış borç (tr)
• Yakut: тас иэс (tas ies)

aggregate of debt to foreigners

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對外債務／对外债务 (duìwài zhàiwù), 对外债务 (duìwài zhàiwù), 外債／外债 (zh) (wàizhài), 外债 (zh) (wàizhài)

• Danish: udlandsgæld c
• Finnish: ulkomaanvelka
• French: dette extérieure f
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utenlandsgjeld m or f

• Portuguese: dívida externa f
• Russian: вне́шний долг (ru) m (vnéšnij dolg)
• Spanish: deuda externa f
• Swedish: utlandsskuld c
• Yakut: тас иэс (tas ies)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked‌: "the amount of money that a country has to pay to another country"

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} buitenlandse schuld
• French: ^{(please verify)} dette extérieur f
• Indonesian: utang luar negeri
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• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} debita exterior

See also

• debt
• foreign