CREDITOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creditor mean? 

• CREDITOR (noun)
  The noun CREDITOR has 1 sense:

1. a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists

  Familiarity information: CREDITOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREDITOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("creditor" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creditor"):

mortgage holder; mortgagee (the person who accepts a mortgage)

Antonym:

debtor (a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt)

Derivation:

credit (accounting: enter as credit)

 Context examples 

The only visitors I ever saw, or heard of, were creditors.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He determines to swindle his creditors, and for this purpose he pays large checks to a certain Mr. Cornelius, who is, I imagine, himself under another name.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It also rules creditors, taxes, student loans, and similar funds.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Nothing else that has being would have been tolerable to me in the character of creditor for such an obligation: but you: it is different;—I feel your benefits no burden, Jane.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The creditor Hungarian Development Bank is state-owned as well.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

I begged a fortnight’s grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He asked me, “who were our creditors; and where we found money to pay them?”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The gossip among the servants is that their master is terribly afraid of something. ‘Sold his soul to the devil in exchange for money,’ says Warner, ‘and expects his creditor to come up and claim his own.’ Where they came from, or who they are, nobody has an idea.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maddison is a clever fellow; I do not wish to displace him, provided he does not try to displace me; but it would be simple to be duped by a man who has no right of creditor to dupe me, and worse than simple to let him give me a hard-hearted, griping fellow for a tenant, instead of an honest man, to whom I have given half a promise already.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She considered it as an act of indispensable duty to clear away the claims of creditors with all the expedition which the most comprehensive retrenchments could secure, and saw no dignity in anything short of it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)