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debt·or

[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

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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World English Dictionary
debtor (ˈdɛtə)
 
n
Compare creditor a person or commercial enterprise that owes a financial obligation

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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.
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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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