The phrase 'clear debts' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to paying back money owed. For example: "I'm trying my best to clear debts before the end of the month."
Falls in nominal property prices would hamper attempts to clear debts through private sales, and repossessions would surge upwards.
As well as using assets to clear debts, it is vital to get the best income possible when drawing on a private pension.
They might find that by using a credit card offering 0 per cent interest, and sticking to set monthly repayments, they will clear debts faster".
Wasps were one of eight Premiership clubs to make a loss last season and part of the money raised will be used to clear debts.
The piece owed clear debts to harder-edged video predecessors like Joan Jonas and Hannah Wilke and even to performance artists like Marina Abramovic.
They included those in severe financial difficulty, as well as people who needed to clear debts or were having trouble selling on the open market.
Mr. Anderson owes a clear debt to the Japanese designers of the '80s.
These newer bands owe a clear debt to their most recent predecessors.
In his use of dramatised narrative there is a clear debt to Robert Frost.
Shaffer's writing, with its delicately offbeat, self-deprecating stylishness, is exquisitely turned, bearing a clear debt to Jane Austen.
One of this year's most impressive novels, Teju Cole's debut "Open City," owes a clear debt to Sebald.
