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arrears

noun as in debt

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Ofgem said that the level of energy debt and arrears in England, Wales and Scotland had risen by more than £750m compared with a year earlier.

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They had cut the deficit to just three with 20 minutes of the game remaining, reducing the arrears first through Morgane Bourgeois' penalty and then Charlotte Escudero's converted try.

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“Sword enthusiast sells stock to help wipe out arrears.”

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It said the closure would have a "significant" impact on its operations and it believed it would be "unlikely to recover any rent arrears and costs".

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Last year, Reynolds helped defuse a crisis when dozens of veterans living on the West Los Angeles campus fell in arrears and received eviction notices.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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