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UK
/kɹˈɛdɪtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈkɹɛdətɝ, ˈkɹɛdɪtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹɛdətɝ, ˈkɹɛdɪtɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists
How To Use creditor In A Sentence
- Now that I think about it, direct property distraint was a recognized means of compelling welchers to fulfill their obligations in the quasi-anarchic Brehon laws of Celtic Ireland, even if it was a case of tenants or debtors going after landlords or creditors. Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #30
- No creditor is gonna want want a piece of your sweet assets these days unless you've got a nice fat down payment and a plunging debt-to-income ratio that reveals a nice plump credit score. How To Be A Sexy Borrower - The Consumerist
- The new shareholder has declared the intention to conclude agreements with the plant's creditors and restore the production.
- In these cases no defence is offered so they are signed off electronically by the court on evidence supplied by creditors. Times, Sunday Times
- The Servian action is that by which a landlord sues for his tenant's property, over which he has a right in the nature of mortgage as security for his rent; the quasi-Servian is a similar remedy, open to every pledgee or hypothecary creditor. The Institutes of Justinian
- In the first horror occasioned by her father's distress from the bills of her brother, she wrote a supplicating letter to Mrs. Mittin, to intreat she would endeavour to quiet her creditors till she could arrange something for their payment. Camilla
- Failure to approve them in a vote this week could block the next tranche of €3 billion from international creditors. Times, Sunday Times
- And I told my creditors that we needed to give these people 10 days of severance, even though that would deplete the rest of our cash.
- When are distributions likely to be made to creditors?
- Every month you send the agency a single payment that is portioned out to each of your creditors until your debts are paid off.