Usually means: Debt unlikely to be repaid.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word bad debt:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. bad debt: Merriam-Webster
  2. bad debt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bad debt: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bad debt: Vocabulary.com
  5. bad-debt: Wordnik
  6. bad debt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bad debt: Wiktionary
  8. Bad Debt (Hiss Golden Messenger album), Bad Debt, Bad debt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. bad debt: Rhymezone
  10. bad debt: FreeDictionary.org
  11. bad debt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. bad debt: Dictionary.com
  13. bad debt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. bad debt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  15. bad debt: Merriam-Webster

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. bad debt: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. bad debt: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Bad debt: Moneyterms
  9. Bad Debt: Investopedia
  10. bad debt: Legal dictionary
  11. Bad Debt: Financial dictionary
  12. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bad debt: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bad debt)

noun:  (business, accounting) A debt which cannot be recovered from the debtor, either because the debtor lacks the money to pay or because the debtor cannot be found and/or forced to pay.

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