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Overall considering the impact of our interest rate swap agreement that we have in place as of September 30, 80. 1\% of our debt is at a fixed rate, with only 19. 9\% of floating rate debt, our overall weighted average cost of debt as of September 30 is 6. 41\%.

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  1. noun Something owed, such as money, goods, or services.
  2. noun An obligation or liability to pay or render something to someone else.
  3. noun The condition of owing: a young family always in debt.
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  • We've read stories reporting the Chinese are going to dump close to US$1 trillion in American debt, and we never found that too convincing. —  FreeMarketNews.com - World News/Editorials and Analysis
  • Overall using your equity to help reduce your debt is a great step. —  Crosby Finance
  • I am in the latter camp and hence think that the debt is the last problem to worry about now. —  GuruFocus Updates
  • In Japan's case this doesn't matter so much, since most of the people buying the debt are themselves Japanese (home bias) and Japan is a current account surplus country. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • Eight years ago, "we had no deficit, and the debt was actually being paid down," Bennet said. —  Vail Daily - Top Stories
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  1. Middle English dette, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *dēbita, pl. of Latin dēbitum, debt, neuter past participle of dēbēre, to owe; see ghabh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. The b was ignorantly “restored” in English and F. in the latter part of the 16th century; it is not found in earlier English Early modern English and Middle English det, usually dette, from Old French dette, dete, later sometimes spelled debte, modern F. dette = Provencal deute = Spanish deuda = Portuguese divida = Italian detta, feminine, from Middle Latin debita feminine (orig. neuter plural) (cf. Old French det = Old Spanish deudo = Italian debito, masculine, = English debit, q. v.), from Latin debitum, neuter, what is owed, a debt, a duty, neuter past participle of debere, owe, contr. of *dehibere, literally have from, from de, from, + habere = English have. From the same source are debit, a doublet, and due, nearly a doublet, of debt; also debtor, indebted, etc.
 

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