especially: a person to whom money or goods are due
Example Sentences
She owes thousands of dollars to creditors.
Recent Examples on the WebUnder the terms of the plan, each abuse claimant-creditor would receive $3.500 to $2.7 million, depending on the severity of the case, and some amount would be put into a trust for continuing litigation, mostly from insurance companies. Peter Weber, The Week, 9 Sep. 2022 Recently it has been dragged into the bankruptcy of Voyager Digital, in which Alameda owns a stake and is both creditor and debtor, according to court filings. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2022 But this is an offer that neither Perelman nor O’Malley can afford to ignore, since Chatham is by far Vericast’s largest creditor. William Cohan, Town & Country, 18 Aug. 2022 China, Sri Lanka’s third largest creditor after Japan and the Asian Development Bank, accounts for about 10% of its debt. David Rising And Sheikh Saaliq, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2022 Sri Lanka has received and continues to reach out to numerous countries for help — including the most controversial, China, currently the country's third-largest creditor. Krutika Pathi, ajc, 12 June 2022 The final lesson is that none of this helps a debtor who receives such a distribution, since the debtor must pay it over to the creditor anyway or risk contempt. Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022 The incident illustrates how Sri Lanka must increasingly balance its relationship with longtime ally India, and major creditor China. Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Aug. 2022 After liquidating the collateral, DCG remains the biggest creditor of Three Arrows and has a claim of $1.2 billion against the hedge fund. Vicky Ge Huang, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022 See More
ADJECTIVE | VERB + CREDITOR | CREDITOR + NOUNADJECTIVE➤foreign外國債權人➤private私人債主➤large大債主➤secured, unsecured有擔保/無擔保債權人VERB + CREDITOR➤pay, pay off, repay償還債務;清償債務◇They agreed to repay their creditors over a period of three years.他們同意 3 年內向債主還清欠款。➤avoid, evade躲債;逃避債主CREDITOR + NOUN➤country, nation債權國