odious debt (English, noun)
expansion: odious debt (countable and uncountable, plural odious debts)
Senses:
qualifier: international law
glosses: The national debt incurred by a regime for purposes that do not serve the best interests of the nation, and thus considered to be a personal debt of the regime and not a debt of the state.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: odious debts
tags: plural