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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actual debt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the real or existing amount of money owed, distinguishing it from potential or hypothetical debts.
Example: "Before making any financial decisions, it's important to assess your actual debt to understand your obligations."
Alternatives: "real debt" or "existing debt".
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Regrettably, it excludes more effective tools, like actual debt write-downs, which Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, finds politically unpalatable.
By the way, a borrower's credit card limit counts as actual debt, regardless of whether the card is even used.
These could turn into actual debt: the IMF estimates they could add a further 15% of GDP to the burden, taking the ratio above 140%.
They were based instead on indexes that might, or might not, move in the same way that rates moved on the county's actual debt.
Trading in credit-default swaps linked only to Greek debt has also surged, but is still smaller than the country's actual debt load of $300 billion.
The club paid £12.2m in interest and other financing charges, and £5.3m paying off some actual debt, which nevertheless remains over £400m.
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"It's now the actual real debt is £2.1m, which is the loan notes.
The chamber then passed the actual debt-ceiling measure, which raises the ceiling until March , 2015 by fifty-five votos to forty-three.
The actual debts are not that great, but the pressure from creditors is absolutely huge".
The actual debts are almost all real, and the records of most of them presumably exist somewhere.
And calculating the actual implied debt relief is beyond me.
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