Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BACK-END RATIO OR BACK RATIO
  
  The sum of the house payment and all other monthly debt -- credit cards, car payments, student loans and the like -- divided by before-tax income. Traditionally, lenders were loath to extend borrowers' back-end ratios past 36 percent, but they often do now.
  
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