"ample debt" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a significant or plentiful amount of money owed to someone or something. Example: Despite her ample debt, Sarah continued to live beyond her means and spent money frivolously.
Businesses with some combination of low debt, ample cash and significant domestic or global market share or standing have a good chance to feed off weaker rivals, says Wang Chaoyang, who from Beijing manages about $300 million invested in Chinese stocks.
The threat of such dangerous debt dynamics is ample incentive for Mr Obama to hurry up and explain how he will tame the deficit once the recession is over.
Even if the borrowed money went to support consumption, it may still be fine if the borrowers have ample income to repay the debt.
During the conference call, both Mr. Carp and Robert H. Brust, Kodak's chief financial officer, maintained that Kodak had ample cash and that its debt was manageable.
There is ample precedent, too: purchasing public debt is the main way that QE has been conducted in America, Britain and Japan.The ECB is permitted to buy sovereign bonds in secondary markets.
Bond traders, though, have had a whale of a time: the fat spread on Hungarian government debt has provided ample scope for the "carry trade"—borrowing cheaply elsewhere in order to fill up in Hungary.Investors seem willing to turn a blind eye to Hungary's chronic fiscal woes as long as the central bank shows no signs of wavering in defending the currency.
Italy and Belgium have high debt levels but more ample private savings, and their underlying budgets are closer to surplus.
McClatchy still has ample cash flow to pay its debts, but was in danger of not having enough to comply with its bond covenants, a condition that would have meant a technical default.
The national government has very little debt by international measures and ample capacity to bail out local governments and banks that lent to them.
