Top Qs

Timeline

Chat

Perspective

debt ceiling

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads

English

Alternative forms

debt-ceiling

Noun

debt ceiling (plural debt ceilings)

(politics, economics) The limit up to which an entity (usually a government) is legally allowed to borrow.

Related terms

fiscal cliff

Translations

limit

Chinese:
Mandarin: 債務上限 / 债务上限 (zhàiwù shàngxiàn), 债务上限 (zhàiwù shàngxiàn)
Finnish: velkakatto
French: plafond de dette m
German: Schuldengrenze f, Schuldenobergrenze f
Hungarian: adósságplafon

Remove ads

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads

Remove ads