old debts

language: fr

definitions

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

examples

  1. The company struggled to repay its old debts.

    L'entreprise avait du mal à rembourser ses vieilles dettes.

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

    Il sentait qu'il devait régler de vieilles dettes de gratitude.