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Debt vs Rephasing - What's the difference?

debt | rephasing |

As nouns the difference between debt and rephasing

is that debt is an action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another while rephasing is a restoration of the phase of a system.

As a verb rephasing is

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debt

English

(wikipedia debt)

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

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)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
  • (legal) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
    • (Burrill)

    Derived terms

    * bad debt * debt exchange * debt-equity ratio * debt-laden * debt of honor * domestic debt * external debt * foreign debt * in debt * national debt * technical debt

    Related terms

    * debit * debitor * debtor * indebted

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    rephasing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A restoration of the phase of a system
  • A change in the timing of a phased system (such as traffic lights)
  • (economics, finance) A rescheduling; especially , a rescheduling of debt repayments or other obligations.
  • * 1998 , Gene O. Evelyn, “The Divestiture of the Guyana Telecommunications Corporation”, in Deryck R. Brown (editor), Evaluation, Learning and Caribbean Development , Canoe Press, ISBN 978-976-8125-28-6, page 430:
    • Early in 1993, ATN [ a rephasing' of the programme. ATN made this request on the basis of suppliers’ delays, and theft and willful destruction of property locally. Thus, whereas the scope of agreed works remains unchanged, the time frames are no longer applicable. At least one implication of this ' rephasing is clear: at minimum, there must result a postponement of some of the benefits expected from the divestiture.
  • * 2005 June 9, “ IMF Executive Board Completes Second Review Under Peru’s Stand-By Arrangement”, International Monetary Fund Press Release No. 05/137, reproduced in IMF Country Report No. 07/110 (2007 March), ISBN 978-1-45183-112-2:
    • In addition, the [Executive] Board [of the International Monetary Fund] also approved a rephasing of the country's future disbursements into five equal amounts of SDR 27.6 million (about US$40.7 million).
  • * 2009 , House of Commons, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee: HC 90 The Work of the Committee in Session 2008–09 , ISBN 978-0-215-54267-0, page 35:
    • The Estimate shows a £20m increase in grants to the compensation Agency as a result of rephasing' of non-cash provisions from 2009-10 and 2010-11 into 2008-09 (Estimate, p 381). ¶ No, this additional funding in 2008-09 is not treated as a call on the Reserve. It is a ' rephasing of the Agency’s CSR07 budget within the existing total.

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