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Does the uncountable "debt" have a meaning of all "debts" owed by a person/entity?
Does the uncountable "debt" have a meaning of all "debts" owed by a person/entity?
So, one could uncountably "have debt" to pay off?
Acceptable, I'd say, but you're much more likley to hear it with a quanitifer: He has some/very little/a lot of/so much debt.
Crap!Quantifier. Sorry!
As Barb said in post #8, it's acceptable.From a Businessweek magazine article: "[FONT=TimesNewRoman,Times,Serif]Toshiba Corp., for instance, has debt equal to 1.9 times equity already."[/FONT]
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