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Argentina re-enters world finance market

Vocabulary

access

be able to get into

tight financing and rising debt obligations

not having much money to spend and owing a lot of money to other people or countries

a pariah

someone (or here, a country) who is not accepted by a social group, especially because he, she or it isn't trusted

defaulted

didn't repay the money it had borrowed

restructure

(specialised financial term) come to an agreement about repaying a loan

accumulated interest

the gradually increasing amount of money you have to repay in addition to the amount you borrowed

favourable

good or advantageous

pending

waiting for a decision to be made

investor lawsuits

people, companies or countries which had made loans to Argentina, trying to get their money back by taking legal action

freezing of the country's assets

officially and legally preventing Argentina's money or property from being used or moved