The phrase "settle the debt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the payment of a monetary amount owed. For example, "The company was able to settle the debt with their creditors."
Mr. Lythcott said the theater expected government loans to settle the debt.
If all else fails, use a credit card to settle the debt with the school.
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority cannot agree on who should settle the debt.
Russia's finance minister, Aleksei L. Kudrin, indicated today that the government would try to settle the debt soon.
The repayment will come three and a half years before the loan is due and five months sooner than the company initially planned to settle the debt.
The loan was repaid three and a half years before it was due and five months earlier than the company had initially planned to settle the debt.
In the call, he encouraged the Ukrainian leader to settle the debts, Mr. Medvedev's office said in statement carried by the Interfax news agency.
The investigators, from the General Accounting Office, said Medicare officials had ignored their own rules and procedures in negotiating secret deals to settle the debts -- the three largest Medicare overpayment cases of the last decade.
They refused to listen when advised to sell Spring Street to settle the debts of Judd's messy estate and to support the larger concentration of Judd's many activities in Marfa, Tex.
The integration of the two services will first let users settle the debts they tracked on Billmonk instantly over Obopay's mobile payment platform and eventually by email.
Even Kaiser Wilhelm II became involved in an attempt to press the Ottoman government to settle the debts incurred by the sailors.
