How to Use debt service in a Sentence

debt service

noun

• And meaning, a rise in rates affects debt service costs more.
  — WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• Worker pensions, retiree health care and debt service make up about a third of the budget.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• Lower rates can also aid debt service payments for the federal budget deficit.
  — Brian Evans,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 10 July 2024
• The tax would raise about $274 million to pay for various projects as well as debt service for the bond issue.
  — David Ibata, ajc, 11 July 2018
• The long-term financing to pay for the new vehicles fits into the town’s debt service at a time when older debts will be paid off and erased.
  — Bill Leukhardt, Courant Community, 19 June 2018
• Emanuelson said the policy limits the annual increase of the amount of tax levy funds spent on debt service to 5 percent.
  — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2018
• This budget-buster, as well as debt service and state retiree benefits, threaten the state’s fiscal health, Ain told council members.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2018
• Tolls have increased every year since 2009, in part to pay for a long-term turnpike reconstruction project and to handle debt service.
  — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
• However, lawmakers largely avoided tackling the rising costs of debt service, pensions and health care that eat up more than 30 percent of state spending.
  — Martin Z. Braun, courant.com, 5 June 2019
• The other half of the budget goes toward things like transportation, facilities, debt services and administration.
  — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2018
• Rice noted the numbers in the budget presented at the preliminary workshop on June 5 did not include the debt services, the capital projects, or the food services funds.
  — Michelle Iracheta, Houston Chronicle, 16 June 2018
• There was no debt service paid for the village this year.
  — Hank Beckman, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• Africa spends more on debt service costs than on health care.
  — Vanessa Kerry, STAT, 31 May 2024
• The length of the debt service varies depending on when the bonds were issued and the last one in Fort Lauderdale will end in 2049.
  — Wells Dusenbury, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• The tolls collected to pay for Phase 1 of the LA 1 project do not fully cover the debt service.
  — David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 2 Mar. 2021
• That money is spent on debt service and services around the theme parks and resorts.
  — Michael Hiltzikbusiness Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
• The city could pay off all the debt service and maybe finally see some life in what’s the deadest part of downtown.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
• Also, there is a question over whether the money could be used for debt service.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 16 June 2021
• Any debt service abatement proposal will come to the board in March.
  — Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2021
• Maryland lottery proceeds will be used to pay debt service for the project, which is still in the planning stages.
  — Dave McMillion, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2022
• Havre de Grace will repay the funds over 20 years, making debt service payments twice a year.
  — David Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• When so much of our budget goes to debt service, we are misgoverned.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 8 Nov. 2019
• About $25 million of the hike would go toward debt service on a capital plan.
  — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• Interest rates and the cost of debt service have fallen even further since then.
  — Nihal Krishan, Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2020
• That number would increase to $5 million per year — or eight times the annual debt service on the bonds.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 22 July 2019
• Well, Wicker said debt service on the new stadium will be about $11 million a year.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2021
• The second portion of the tax rate is interest and sinking, used to pay for the district’s debt service, which the district set at 46 cents.
  — Paul Wedding, Houston Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2019
• This bill makes no provision as to how that debt service is going to be assumed.
  — Eric Levenson and Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
• Bagley said that the state can cut 10 years and $10 million annually off the debt service by waiting.
  — Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
• Financial disclosure documents show as of the most recent debt service payment date on May 15, redemption of the bonds are ahead of the repayment schedule.
  — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024