debt load

noun

: the amount of money that someone owes

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Field’s exit comes after Audacy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, in a bid to slash its debt load. Todd Spangler, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025 The analyst also highlighted the company’s efforts to decrease its debt load, and noted Digital Realty Trust has multiple avenues of funding at its disposal at better rates compared to previous leverage. Brian Evans, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025 But Siegel argued that the shortest path to upside for the stock is a reduction in the company’s debt load as net debt is high at about 62 percent of the companies’ market cap, equivalent to $12 to $13 a share. Evan Clark, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025 For the last several months, Boeing has been conducting a review of potential divestitures to reduce its enormous net debt load of $45 Billion. Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for debt load 

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“Debt load.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/debt%20load. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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