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- noun business, accounting A
debt which cannot be recovered from the debtor, either because the debtor doesn't have the money to pay or because the debtor cannot be found and/or forced to pay.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a debt that is unlikely to be repaid
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