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debtor

[det-er]

noun

a person who is in debt or under financial obligation to another (opposed to creditor).

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English detto(u)r < Anglo-French dett(o)ur, de(b)tour, Old French det(t)or < Latin dēbitōr-, stem of dēbitor, equivalent to dēbi-, variant stem of dēbēre (see debt) + -tor -tor

Related forms

non·debt·or, noun

pre·debt·or, noun

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Example Sentences

As a result of the default judgment, debt buyers can either garnish wages and bank accounts or require payment from the debtor.

The carrot for the debtor country is securing future access to credit, even at a significant risk premium.

Debtor states enjoy enormous fiscal transfers, backed by taxes raised elsewhere and bonds the whole union must repay.

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As a result of the default judgment, debt buyers can either garnish wages and bank accounts or require payment from the debtor.

The carrot for the debtor country is securing future access to credit, even at a significant risk premium.

Debtor states enjoy enormous fiscal transfers, backed by taxes raised elsewhere and bonds the whole union must repay.

Think of it this way: private demand in the debtor countries has plunged with the end of the debt-financed boom.

But the result is that foreign creditors have a right to be more suspicious of debtor countries.

In fact, many bankers already share this view and question whether many debtor countries will ever repay their debt.

Poor families who get into debt will traditionally lend a child to the debtor as a bond or to work their way out of the debt.

If the debtor wins a court case under the act, the debt collector must pay the lawyer's fees.

When a court judges that a debtor is unable to make the payments owed to a creditor.

One can expect creditors to argue that the debtor should have received some consideration for giving up its rights in this regard.

For the debtor governments, the long beach party may finally be over.

The world is debtor to it for much that has simplified labor by supplanting or.

At present the only bankruptcy exception is if repayment would only serve to keep the debtor below a minimum standard of.

And a debtor may be tempted to use devaluation to reduce its external deficit-hardly a desirable property for a reserve currency.

In more recent times the debtor nation's leaders meet with bank executives and work out a new repayment plan.

When a debtor owes a little money to the bank, and there's a problem paying the debt, it's the debtor's problem.

For a debtor facing disaster, there is no guarantee that there will be no regrets after a deal.

The damage it causes is the main incentive for debtor countries to honour their promises.

All four of the debtor countries in the chart enjoyed housing booms.

Battered by austerity, the citizens of debtor countries could easily go the same way.

The problem with credits is, that the more likely it is that the debtor defaults, the more expensive they become.

What they forgot was that relying on positive carry alone comes with a risk: that the debtor will not repay the loan.

Buy-out firms are familiar with the debtor companies-they probably either control them or cast an eye over them during the boom.

Probably, you're better off using western and eastern economies, or debtor and creditor economies for advancing your arguments.

But if a debt is huge enough, the debtor is actually more powerful than the creditor.

It is a matter of the debtor finding ways to render services.

Debt will eventually be paid, either by debtor or creditor.

It is much fairer that the debtor suffers the consequences of irresponsible behavior than the creditors.

The debtor is the one who has to be profitable and earn that money in the first place, and pay it to the bond holders.

It also makes sense for debtor nations to consume a little less and make a little more, which is sort of the point.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

debtor (ˈdɛtə)

—n
	Compare creditor a person or commercial enterprise that owes a financial obligation

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Word Origin & History

debtor

early 13c., dettur, dettour, from O.Fr. detour, from L. debitorem (nom. debitor), from debere; see debt. The -b- was restored in later O.Fr., and in English c.1560-c.1660. The KJV has detter three times, debter three times, debtor twice and debtour once.

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Debtor definition

Various regulations as to the relation between debtor and creditor are laid down in the Scriptures. (1.) The debtor was to deliver up as a pledge to the creditor what he could most easily dispense with (Deut. 24:10, 11). (2.) A mill, or millstone, or upper garment, when given as a pledge, could not be kept over night (Ex. 22:26, 27). (3.) A debt could not be exacted during the Sabbatic year (Deut. 15:1-15). For other laws bearing on this relation see Lev. 25:14, 32, 39; Matt. 18:25, 34. (4.) A surety was liable in the same way as the original debtor (Prov. 11:15; 17:18).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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