debtor
a person who is in debt or under financial obligation to another (opposed to creditor).
Origin of debtor
1Other words from debtor
- non·debt·or, noun
- pre·debt·or, noun
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How to use debtor in a sentence
Among the debtors, 14 percent are behind in student-loan payments, and 13.4 percent of all student loans are in default.
My Commencement Speech to Rutgers’ Geniuses: Go Forth and Fail | P. J. O’Rourke | May 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe U.S. government actually owes its debtors about $11.2 trillion.
The U.S. Government Doesn’t Really Owe $16 Trillion in Debt | Matthew Zeitlin | September 5, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSure, the debtors can keep on borrowing until their creditors revolt, or they can try to dig their way out with austerity budgets.
The creditors and the debtors cooperated in this situation, and the credit of Virginia was gradually re-established.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyThe thought seems to be: The relief which usurers have to offer mourns, if the debtors have (exhibit) too much grief.
The Fatal Dowry | Philip Massinger
Both assert that men are debtors to God, and that miseries are "duns" used to make men pay their obligations to heaven.
Ancient Faiths And Modern | Thomas InmanThe prisons were horrible dens in which felons and debtors, men and women, old and young, were crowded together.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntAnother important law passed at this time was in the nature of a temporary bankruptcy law for the relief of the Roman debtors.
The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States | James Hamilton Lewis
British Dictionary definitions for debtor
/ (ˈdɛtə) /
a person or commercial enterprise that owes a financial obligation: Compare creditor
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