bad debt

1. 1.

   a debt that is unlikely to be repaid

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Questions about bad debt

What does bad debt mean?

bad debt means "a debt that is unlikely to be repaid".

Is bad debt a common word?

bad debt is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.