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BAD DEBTS

"BAD DEBTS" is a plural of: bad debt.


Specialty Definition: BAD DEBTS

DomainDefinition

Literature

Bad Debts Debts not likely to be paid. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BAD DEBTS

Specialty definitions using "BAD DEBTS": contra accountUncompensated Care. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: BAD DEBTS

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Guinea

Corruption, fraud, and bad debts have hampered the Malaysians' progress. (references)

Panama

The banking sector has weathered the economic downturn reasonably well, but results may suffer in 2001 as banks reserve against bad debts in the consumer and retail sectors. (references)

Egypt

The sharp increase in interest rates and the slowdown in credit growth during 2000 put many businesses in deep financial difficulties, and newspapers were full of stories about bad debts. (references)

Political Economy

CZECH REPUBLIC

The government permits tax write-offs of bad debts, although with less generous treatment of pre-1995 debts. (references)

JAPAN

The sources of Japan's economic difficulties go back to the collapse of the asset-price bubble in 1991, which left the banking and corporate sector with excessive and often unproductive investment and a huge volume of bad debts. (references)

Trade

India

This level of bad debts and non-performing assets (NPA), particularly in public sector banks, continues to cause concern for the GOI and the banking system. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: BAD DEBTS

Expressions using "BAD DEBTS": allowance for bad debts account bad debts recovered. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BAD DEBTS

Language Translations for "BAD DEBTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

tab på debitorer (bad debts expense, losses on irrecoverable debts), tab af fordringer (bad debts expense, losses on irrecoverable debts), indgået på tidligere afskrevne fordringer (bad debts recovered). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ontvangsten op afgeschreven vorderingen (bad debts recovered), minderwaarden op de realisatie van handelsvorderingen (bad debts expense, losses on irrecoverable debts). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

luottotappiot (bad debts expense, losses on irrecoverable debts). (various references)

   

French

  

perte sur créances. (various references)

   

German

  

Forderungsverzicht (bad debts expense, losses on irrecoverable debts), Eingang abgeschriebener Forderungen (bad debts recovered). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ζημίες από απαιτήσεις ανεπίδεκτες εισπράξεως (bad debts expense, losses on irrecoverable debts), είσπραξη επισφαλών απαιτήσεων (bad debts recovered). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ricupero di crediti ammortizzati (bad debts recovered), perdite su crediti in sofferenza (bad debts expense, losses on irrecoverable debts). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

不良貸し付け . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふりょうかしつけ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adbay ebtsday

   

Portuguese

  

recuperação de créditos amortizados (bad debts recovered), dívidas incobráveis (bad debts expense, losses on irrecoverable debts). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pérdidas de créditos comerciales incobrables (bad debts expense, losses on irrecoverable debts). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

osäkra fordringar. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

şüpheli alacaklar. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BAD DEBTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-d-e-s-t"

-1 letter: baddest, stabbed.

-2 letters: basted, dabbed, sabbed, tabbed.

-3 letters: abbes, abets, babes, based, baste, bated, bates, beads, beast, beats, betas, dated, dates, deads, debts, sabed, sated, stade, stead, tabes, tsade.

-4 letters: abbe, abed, abet, adds, ates, babe, bade, bads, base, bast, bate, bats, bead, beat, beds, best, beta, bets, dabs, dads, date, dead, debs, debt.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-d-d-e-s-t"
 

+5 letters: biddabilities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BAD DEBTS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 44      44 45 42 54 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01000100 00100000 01000100 01000101 01000010 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#68 &#69 &#66 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0044      0044 0045 0042 0054 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36353823839365453

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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