depositor
- noun
- /dɪˈpɑːzɪtər/
- As a new depositor, Maria felt relieved knowing her savings were safe at the bank.
- bank depositors
- pay depositors
- protect depositors
Their scheme collapsed and depositors at the banks that backed them pulled their money.
- Their scheme collapsed and depositors at the banks that backed them pulled their money.
- The bank depositors become unsecured general creditors of the bank.
- Thus, if some of the loans go bad, the shareholders take the hit and not the depositors.
- The next problem is the depositor base at SVB.
- But and you know, for, for depositors, it's totally fine.
- Now, technically we don't, but so far we have had not a single depositor has lost a dime.
- So banks couldn't, you know, the banks that were getting their money from the markets to lend out rather than their depositors got into real trouble.
- But as you'll see in a moment, we we think about this role of depositors who are allowed to deposit assets into the Ledger.
- It's it's depositors saying we gear the you guys have loan it and we want to cash out.
- They're intermediaries and they depositors put the money in banks and that give money, the banks money to lend.
Examples
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The Greek government would be forced to provide payments to Greek depositors, further increasing the national debt.
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The banks then turned to their governments to protect their depositors and other creditors.
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So, So what is your plan to keep large depositors from moving their funds out of community banks into the big banks?
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The next problem is the depositor base at SVB.
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When freed from the risk of loss, depositors are concerned only with return.
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The dividend was 20 percent of what depositors were owed.
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State-owned banks do not want to pay depositors market interest rates.
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For practical purposes, the Mexican government provided an insurance program whose protection of depositors was virtually complete.
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So if you are a depositor in a bank, you think of it as your money, but what you've really done is made a loan to the bank.
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The British Treasury has proposed new measures to protect depositors and deal with failing banks for later legislative enactment.
Academic text (2008)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word depositor comes from the verb deposit, with de- meaning 'down' and ponere meaning 'to place'. So a depositor is literally someone who 'places down' money — a person who puts money into a bank for safekeeping.