overindebted
adjEtymology From over- + indebted.
1
Too deeply in debt.
- The idea that overindebted, chronically undersaving American consumers would somehow be serving their country in its time of need by maxing out yet more of their credit cards is surely an idea whose time has passed.2009 February 18, “The Way We Save: There’s No Paradox in Thrift”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- overindebtedness