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tech debt

tech debt is the clipping of technical debt.

Meaning of technical debt

Noun

technical debt (countable and uncountable, plural technical debts)

  1. The implied cost of additional future work caused by choosing an easy but inferior solution originally.
    • An important attribute of technical debt is that it grows in an unpredictable, nonlinear fashion. Each bit of technical debt, when added to the pool of existing technical debt, might do significantly more harm than the size of that new debt might imply.2012, Kenneth S. Rubin, Essential Scrum, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 142
    Synonyms:
    design debt, code debt

Forms of tech debt

pluraltech debts

Questions about tech debt

What is tech debt the clipping of?
Tech debt is the clipping of technical debt.

Words near tech debt in the dictionary

  1. tech baron
  2. tech barons
  3. tech boom
  4. tech bro
  5. tech bros
  6. tech debt
  7. tech diving
  8. tech giant
  9. tech giants
  10. tech guru
  11. tech gurus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tech debt (page history and authors); technical debt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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