national debt ceiling

1. 1.

   a limit set by Congress beyond which the national debt cannot rise; periodically raised by Congress

   Broaderdebt limit

Questions about national debt ceiling

What does national debt ceiling mean?

national debt ceiling means "a limit set by Congress beyond which the national debt cannot rise; periodically raised by Congress".

Is national debt ceiling a common word?

national debt ceiling 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.