debt

noun4

1. •
   money that someone has to pay to another person, often because they borrowed it

   • Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers. — 1919
2. •
   An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.

   • Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt / Of this proud king, who studies day and night / To answer all the debt he owes to you / Even with the bloody payment of your deaths. — 1589
3. •
   The state or condition of owing something to another.

   • I am in your debt.
   • We owe them a debt of gratitude for taking care of our pets.
4. •
   An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due