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debt limit in American Englishnoun(in public finance) the legal maximum debt permitted a municipal, state, or national government Examples of 'debt limit' in a sentencedebt limit Obama, meanwhile, got an extension of $2 trillion on the debt limit - enough to get past the next election.Republicans are insisting on the cuts as the price of agreeing to raise the country's legal debt limit.For any such regime to have teeth, budgetary deficit and debt limits would need to be quantified. |