bill; check; account (credit) 805.
arrears, deferred payment, deficit, default, insolvency &c
(nonpayment) 808; bad debt.
interest; premium; usance†, usury; floating debt, floating capital.
debtor, debitor†; mortgagor; defaulter &c 808; borrower.
V. be in debt &c adj.; owe; incur a debt, contract a debt &c n.; run up
a bill, run up a score, run up an account; go on tick; borrow &c 788;
run into debt, get into debt, outrun the constable; run up debts, run
up bills (spend) 809.
answer for, go bail for.
[notify a person of his indebtedness: ] bill, charge.
Adj. indebted; liable, chargeable, answerable for.
in debt, in embarrassed circumstances, in difficulties;
incumbered, involved; involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt,
over one's head in debt, over head and ears in debt; deeply involved;
fast tied up; insolvent &c (not paying) 808; minus, out of pocket.
unpaid; unrequited, unrewarded; owing, due, in arrear†,
outstanding; past due.
Phr. aes alienum debitorem leve gravius inimicum facit [Lat.]; neither
a borrower nor a lender be [Hamlet].