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[
kred
-i-ter
]
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Origin
cred·i·tor
/
ˈkrɛd
ɪ
tər
/
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[
kred
-i-ter
]
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noun
1.
a person or firm to whom money is due (
opposed to
debtor
).
2.
a person or firm that gives
credit
in business transactions.
3.
Bookkeeping
.
credit
(
def. 12b, c
)
.
Origin:
1400–50;
late Middle English
creditour
<
Latin
crēditor,
equivalent to
crēdi-
variant stem of
crēdere
to believe, entrust (
see
credit
) +
-tor
-tor
Related forms
cred·i·tor·ship,
noun
non·cred·i·tor,
noun
pre·cred·i·tor,
noun
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Example Sentences
Not surprisingly, it is a staunch defender of
creditor
rights.
The debts are not sold to another
creditor
but forgiven outright.
The euro zone's northern
creditor
governments have refused to put more of their own money into the pot.
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Not surprisingly, it is a staunch defender of
creditor
rights.
The debts are not sold to another
creditor
but forgiven outright.
The euro zone's northern
creditor
governments have refused to put more of their own money into the pot.
Or there is payday lending, where the borrower gives the
creditor
permission to take money straight from his next pay cheque.
The unsecured
creditor
is essentially now providing a limited facility to allow a bank to work through its problem.
She poisons herself when her unpaid
creditor
threatens to expose her double life.
And these
creditor
countries are bound, ultimately, to run the show.
In many instances, the
creditor
hires another company to collect the debt.
Creditor
nations can give with one hand, or stop taking with the other.
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Collins
World English Dictionary
creditor
(ˈkrɛdɪtə)
—
n
Compare
debtor
a person or commercial enterprise to whom money is owed
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
creditor
mid-15c., from Anglo-Fr. creditour, O.Fr. crediteur (early 14c.), from L. creditum (see
credit
).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
creditor definition
One to whom a
debt
is owed.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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"Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but tax-gatherer and
creditor
came there as elsewhere, and the poverty that yet faintly struggled was hardly less squalid and manifest than that which had long ago submitted and given up the game."
-Charles Dickens
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