creditor

Noun

Meaning

One who credits, believes, or trusts.

One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dun lombard bank shylock praetor subject target credit customer heir recipient collector banker believer beneficiary
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Antonyms

debtor donor entrant charger borrower questioner
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Hypernyms

individual person soul mortal somebody someone

Hyponyms

mortgagee mortgage holder

Phrases with the word

catholic creditor secured creditor preferred creditor unsecured creditor bond creditor

Anagrams

director

Examples

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. James Howell

Indeed, India has become notorious as a country in which a very large part of the working population is laboring in effective debt peonage to a landlord or other creditor. David Graeber

If any one owe a debt for a loan, and a storm prostrates the grain, or the harvest fail, or the grain does not grow for lack of water; in that year he need not give his creditor any grain, he washes his debt-tablet in water and pays no rent for this year. Hammurabi

The creditor gets a pledge from the good payer. Sicilian Proverb

A stern creditor is a poor payer. Swedish Proverb

Be kind to the debtor and he becomes the creditor. Persian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

credited credited spreadsheet Crediton Hamlets creditress creditrix credits