old debts

language: en

definitions

  1. Financial obligations or sums of money owed from a previous period or time.
    en: Financial obligations or sums of money owed from a previous period or time.
  2. Past moral obligations, social duties, or unresolved grievances from the past.
    en: Past moral obligations, social duties, or unresolved grievances from the past.

examples

  1. The company struggled to repay its old debts.

    The company struggled to repay its old debts.

  2. He felt he had to settle old debts of gratitude.

    He felt he had to settle old debts of gratitude.