(alsoassumed liabilities[plural])ACCOUNTING,FINANCEdebtthat acompanyagreesto takeresponsibilityfor when itbuysanothercompany:Theyacquiredthenewspapergroupfor $4billionincashandassumeddebttoboosttheirUSpresence.(Definition ofassumed debtfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofassumed debt
assumed debtIncludingassumeddebt, the total purchase price is about $67.1 billion.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The deal includes a cash payment of $635 million andassumeddebtwhich gives the transaction a value of $2.4 billion.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Includingassumeddebt, the total value of the deal is about $7.1 billion.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The companies agreed on the higher price, for a total of $4.4 billion plus $2 billion inassumeddebt.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The rest wasassumeddebtand capital provided by other partners.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/assumed-debt##
