Definition of 'creditor'

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creditor

(kredɪtəʳ )

Word forms: plural creditors

countable noun [usually plural]

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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creditor in British

(ˈkrɛdɪtə )

noun

a person or commercial enterprise to whom money is owed

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creditor in American

(ˈkrɛdɪtər ; kredˈitər)

noun

a person who extends credit or to whom money is owed

Word origin of 'creditor'

ME creditour < L creditor: see credit

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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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Any remaining assets will be sold and used to pay creditors. Times, Sunday Times (2016)If it is, he would instead be deemed an unsecured creditor. The Sun (2016)The official receiver will take over the legal control of the assets to pay creditors. Times, Sunday Times (2008)Some of the biggest creditors to the fund were willing to strike a deal. Times, Sunday Times (2008)He is under pressure from the international creditors keeping the country afloat. Times, Sunday Times (2016)They must take their chances in the queue along with other unsecured creditors. Times, Sunday Times (2012)It is about stopping the federal government actually paying its creditors. Times, Sunday Times (2011)It could now pocket a fortune as one of the biggest creditors. The Sun (2012)But in this case the lender must get in line with the unsecured creditors. Charles A. D'Ambrosio & Stewart D. Hodges & Richard Brealey & Stewart Myers Principles of Corporate Finance (1991)Administrators are trying to raise cash to pay creditors. 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)The biggest creditors have already yielded. Times, Sunday Times (2009)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)In the commercial world, creditors can recover an unpaid loan by selling assets in administration. 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)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)

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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.

American English: creditor
Brazilian Portuguese: credor
Chinese: 债权人
European Spanish: acreedor
French: créancier
German: Gläubiger
Italian: creditore
Japanese: 債権者
Korean: 채권자
European Portuguese: credor
Spanish: acreedor

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