debt

• 公债

  public debt

• 外债

  foreign debt

• 欠债

  owe a debt

• 还债

  pay back a debt

• 借债

  borrow money

• 解放前他们只能靠借债度日。

  Before 1949, they had to rely on loans to live.

• 一身是债

  be up to one's eyeballs in debt

• 债多不愁

  have too many troubles to worry about; be so in debt one stops worrying about it(literal)