depositor

American  

[dih-poz-i-ter] / dɪˈpɒz ɪ tər /

noun

1. a person or thing that deposits.

2. a person who deposits money in a bank or who has a bank account.

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depositor British  

/ dɪˈpɒzɪtə /

noun

1. a person who places or has money on deposit in a bank or similar organization

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Other Word Forms

• nondepositor noun

Etymology

Origin of depositor

1555–65; < Late Latin, equivalent to Latin dēposi-, variant stem of dēpōnere ( depone ) + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

Net interest revenue, or the spread earned between what it paid out to depositors and what it collected in interest from investments and loans, climbed 25% from the year prior to $3.17 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal

The growth of the private credit market, in which investors rather than bank depositors fund loans, protects bank depositors and ultimately taxpayers by transferring credit risk to people ready and willing to bear it.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ayandeh offered the highest interest rates of any Iranian bank, attracting millions of depositors and borrowing heavily from the central bank, which printed money to keep the institution afloat, economists said.

From The Wall Street Journal

It stipulates that each of the state, the central bank, commercial banks and depositors will share the losses accrued as a result of the financial crisis.

From Barron's

Mismanagement by the bank and its depositors led to the bank’s failure: SVB ignored the tools that could have mitigated the risks of holding uninsured deposits.

From Barron's