Definition of 'creditor'
noun
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creditor in Accounting (krɛdɪtər)
Word forms: (regular plural) creditors
noun
( Accounting : Commerce )
A creditor is an organization or person who people owe money to.
The company said it would pay in full all its creditors.
A provisional liquidator can either restructure or liquidate assets and distribute
proceeds to creditors.
A creditor is an organization or person who people owe money to.
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Example sentences containing 'creditor'
Times, Sunday Times (2008) Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He is under pressure from the international creditors keeping the country afloat.
Times, Sunday Times (2016) Times, Sunday Times (2012) Times, Sunday Times (2011) The Sun (2012) Principles of Corporate Finance (1991) The Sun (2014)He has spent the time since then painstakingly paying off creditors and getting the site up and running.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)It is understood that pressure in recent weeks from a number of trade creditors pushed the company over the edge.
Times, Sunday Times (2008) Times, Sunday Times (2009)Greece has only eight working days to submit revised reforms to its international creditors to unlock a final tranche of bailout funds.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)An appointment after the rent bill is due means that landlords would instead have to join the long queue of unsecured creditors.
Times, Sunday Times (2012) Times, Sunday Times (2013) Times, Sunday Times (2015)It now owes creditors about 7 million.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)It is understood that the sum paid is insufficient to cover unsecured creditors owed 70 million.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)It is bent on halting a third batch of budget cuts and reforms that international creditors want in exchange for more rescue funds.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)He is the biggest creditor with 19m of loans.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)The section could be relied on only by a future or contingent creditor of a company which had reached the end of the road.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)Failure to approve them in a vote this week could block the next tranche of €3 billion from international creditors.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)The workers who lost their jobs and the creditors who were owed nearly 1.3 billion by the collapse deserved no less.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)That was especially true in the context of the duties of an auditor which were not owed to the company 's creditors.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)As banks and oil company creditors pull the plug on struggling airlines, the blow will rebound on investors in aircraft leases.
Times, Sunday Times (2008) PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson (2004)Trends of 'creditor'
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Translations for 'creditor'
British English: creditor NOUN
Your creditors are the people who you owe money to.The company said it would pay in full all its creditors.
Your creditors are the people who you owe money to.The company said it would pay in full all its creditors.
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