grantor
noun
a person or organization that makes a grant.
grantors
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pluralof grantor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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To your point: This rather punitive tax structure encourages grantors — again, that’s you — to distribute income to beneficiaries rather than retain that income, which is then compressed into higher tax brackets.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
Here’s what five recipients, and grantors told us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Buy-in from the research community could easily be obtained if referees and grantors required declaration of all sampling information.
From Nature ● Aug. 27, 2019
The opening paragraph identifies the parties as parents or legal guardians, who will be the grantors, and the individuals being granted guardianship, who will be grantees.
From Encyclopedia.com ● Sep. 19, 2018
The power of the grantors, if they ever had any power, had long expired, and Marshpee was governed by new laws.
From Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained by William Apess
