debtor
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- noun
- /ˈdɛb.tɚ/
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deudor
- The immediate alleviation of the problems of the debtor nations, however, requires more specific redress.
- debtors and creditors
- debtor's assets
- debtor's property
European countries were now debtors rather than creditors of the United States.
- European countries were now debtors rather than creditors of the United States.
- America is now the biggest debtor nation in the world, worse than Japan.
- And what inflation really does is it transfers wealth from debtors, from creditors rather to debtors.
- You know, if you look at, you know, what we mentioned earlier, inflation benefits debtors and punishes creditors.
- So he says we have to be merciful to our debtors.
- It's quite clear that our union cannot be a union where countries are permanent debtors.
- A good education is knowing that good debt versus bad debt and how debtors can win if you know what you're doing.
- And anything can record, crystallize the the relationship between the, the creditor and the debtor.
- The longer the term of the loan, the greater the fall, the easier the burden on the debtors.
- When you have inflation, inflation destroys paper assets and it transfers wealth from creditors, creditors to debtors, right?
- Well then people aren't incentivized to to spend because they'll wait to spend or people will be punished for being debtors.
- I was seeing, I did a piece yesterday about the demands of the international financial community for China to be more easy on its debtors.
- We're the biggest debtor nation in the world. The only nation more in depth than US is Japan.
- They stopped the debtor prisons, which were common all over the subcontinent and stopped the warlordism.
Examples
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After filing for bankruptcy, the individual was relieved to be recognized as a debtor and began to rebuild their financial stability.
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And as a result, the US to this day is the largest debtor nation in history.
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America is now the biggest debtor nation in the world, worse than Japan.
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Consequently, France became a debtor to the US and UK.
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European countries were now debtors rather than creditors of the United States.
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Bankruptcy law necessarily considers the needs of both debtors and creditors, and consumer credit was clearly on the rise.
Academic text (2017) -
In the lending agreement, the borrower is referred to as the debtor, while the lender retains the right to claim their money back.
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The study didn't try to explain why so many debtors failed to complete repayment plans.
Synonyms
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2.3
A person who takes money or things and plans to give them back
A person who owes money to another
A person who must repay money they borrowed
Antonyms
How Indebted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Debtor comes from the Latin word debere, which means 'to owe' and is the source of English words like debt and debit. So a debtor is simply someone who 'owes' money to another person or a bank.