Usually means: Owing money or gratitude to.
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  1. indebted: Merriam-Webster
  2. indebted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. indebted: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. indebted: Collins English Dictionary
  5. indebted: Vocabulary.com
  6. Indebted, indebted: Wordnik
  7. indebted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. indebted: Wiktionary
  9. indebted: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. indebted: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. indebted: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Indebted, indebted: Dictionary.com
  13. indebted: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. indebted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Indebted (TV series), Indebted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Indebted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. indebted: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Indebted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. indebted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. indebted: FreeDictionary.org
  21. indebted: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. indebted: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. indebted: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. indebted: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Obligated, especially financially.
▸ adjective:  (usually with to) Owing gratitude for a service or favour.

Similar:
obligated, debted, beholden, obliged, committed, bound, duty bound, repayable, dutybound, liable, more...

Opposite:
solvent, unindebted, debt-free, independent, affluent

Types:
in debt, liable, responsible, more...

Phrases:
Heavily indebted poor countries, be indebted, be indebted to, person indebted to, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     burgundy,     maroon,     dark green, more...


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Similar:
obligated, debted, beholden, obliged, committed, bound, duty bound, repayable, dutybound, liable, more...

Opposite:
solvent, unindebted, debt-free, independent, affluent

Types:
in debt, liable, responsible, more...

Phrases:
Heavily indebted poor countries, be indebted, be indebted to, person indebted to, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     burgundy,     maroon,     dark green, more...



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