financial obligation

Questions about financial obligation

What does financial obligation mean?

financial obligation means "an obligation to pay money to another party".

What is another word for financial obligation?

Close synonyms include indebtedness, liability. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is financial obligation a common word?

financial obligation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.