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/krˈɛdətər/ /krˈɛdɪtər/ Listen

noun

Creditor n.

One who credits, believes, or trusts. "The easy creditors of novelties."

One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; correlative to debtor. "Creditors have better memories than debtors."

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Etymology of 'Creditor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Creditor" Quotes from Famous Books

... with all the trouble and let us share it," said matter-of-fact Cal. And then she told how, after papa's sudden death a year before, she had discovered a mortgage to be on the place, small, but now due and no money to meet it; the creditor was pressing, and the home to be sold. We felt sad, but cheered her up, and talked over ways and means as ...

— Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad • Various

... pleasant reading than a man might desire toward Christmas. Well! he had never been one of those poor-spirited sneaks who would refuse to give a helping hand to a fellow-traveller in this puzzling world. The really vexatious business was the fact that some months ago the creditor who had lent him the five hundred pounds to repay Mrs. Glegg had become uneasy about his money (set on by Wakem, of course), and Mr. Tulliver, still confident that he should gain his suit, and finding it eminently inconvenient to raise the said sum until that ...

— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot

... (of a bed) the rent (of a house) the creditor the chin the silver-plate to borrow I am in a hurry to get there you don't lose much by not knowing him ...

— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet

... of the system of government in Ireland; so that he who can contrive means to cover the most malicious and oppressive crimes by the easy pretext of securing the public peace, may rest as firmly on an act to indemnify him in the succeeding session, as the public creditor may depend on the passing of ...

— The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed • Anonymous

... place at Second and High Streets were tireless in meting out their punishments to the delinquent debtors. Anderson took royal advantage of this state of affairs, either by resolving the debt in favor of an enlistment in the company or by effecting a threatened punishment on the part of the creditor unless his wishes were complied with. Many recruits who otherwise would have rejected flatly the base proposition, were secured ...

— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett

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