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Definitions for: external debt
external debt

  1. funds obtained from outside an organization, including bank loans and subordinated debt-a measure of financial leverage. In general, external debt is anything that is not equity capital such as common stock or preferred stock.
  2. total amount of bank debt owed by debtor nations to foreign lenders and creditor banks.

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