Noun

(en noun)

An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.

* 1589 , (William Shakespeare), Henry IV, Part I , act 1, sc. 3,

Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt

Of this proud king, who studies day and night

To answer all the debt he owes to you

Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.

* 1850 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne), (The Scarlet Letter) , ch. 14,

This long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.

The state or condition of owing something to another.

Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.

* 1919 , (Upton Sinclair), Jimmie Higgins , ch. 15,

Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

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(legal) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.

(Burrill)

Noun

(en noun)

A non-existent or empty value or set of values.

Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.

(Francis Bacon)

Something that has no force or meaning.

(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.

(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.

Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .

One of the beads in nulled work.

(statistics) null hypothesis