creditor
/ˈkɹɛdɪtɚ/ noun C1- A person to whom a debt is owed. · The creditor demanded immediate payment.· She met with her creditors to negotiate the debt.
- One who gives credence to something; a believer.
Plural creditors
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He determines to swindle his creditors, and for this purpose he pays large checks to a certain Mr.
“And you’ll probably find that your creditors will impound the banking account of Mr.
He has lost four or five vessels, and suffered by three or four bankruptcies; but it is not for me, although I am a creditor myself to the amount of ten thousand francs, to give any information as to the state of his finances.
Emmanuel received him; this young man was alarmed by the appearance of every new face, for every new face might be that of a new creditor, come in anxiety to question the head of the house.
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