bad debt

Definitions

General English

  • noun an amount of money owed to a person or to a company, which will never be paid

Accounting

  • noun a debt which will not be paid, usually because the debtor has gone out of business, and which has to be written off in the accounts

Law

  • noun money owed which will never be paid back
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