A debtor is a country, organization, or person who owes money.
...the situation of debtor countries.
Synonyms: borrower, mortgagor, loanee, drawee More Synonyms of debtor
debtor in British English
(ˈdɛtə)
noun
a person or commercial enterprise that owes a financial obligation
Compare creditor
debtor in American English
(ˈdɛtər)
noun
a person, company, nation, etc. that owes something to another or others
Word origin
altered (after L) < ME dettur < OFr detor < L debitor < debitus, pp. of debere: see debt
debtor in Accounting
(dɛtər)
Word forms: (regular plural) debtors
noun
(Accounting: Commerce)
A debtor is an organization or person that owes money.
Any concession that creditors grant to one debtor would set a precedent for all the others.
When a business offers a customer credit for the purchase of a good or service, thenthat customer becomes a debtor of that business.
A debtor is an organization or person that owes money.
Examples of 'debtor' in a sentence
debtor
We and he are transformed from debtor and creditor into bride and bridegroom.
Christianity Today (2000)
Debt advisers all tell debtors to make early contact in case of difficulty with payment.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
These extremes have made the relationship between debtor and creditor unstable.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
There is a bargain that would make both creditors and debtors better off.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The deflation increased the real income of bondholders and other creditors but injured debtors.
Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
Responsibility lies with both creditors and debtors.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It could not be excluded by agreement between debtor and creditor.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But the global economy comprises debtors and creditors.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The ten biggest debtors have been overpaid 1.7million.
The Sun (2011)
More than once he found himself in a debtors' prison.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
As a young mother she was forced to live in debtors' prison.
Paula Byrne PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson (2004)
A judgment debtor could not have the benefits of bankruptcy without its burdens.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In the case of liquidation or bankruptcy, that was when the company entered into liquidation or the debtor was declared bankrupt.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
I am going to get sued and spend the rest of my life in debtors' prison!
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Yet price and wage cuts will only make the debt problem worse: deflation is the debtor's biggest enemy.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He had written a pamphlet about the crime, which sold so well it rescued him from debtors' prison.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
Personally, I would favour a return to the old debtors prisons.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Not only was he bankrupted by the enterprise and flung into debtors' prison, he also endured the wrath and scorn of the scientific and religious establishments.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In other languages
debtor
British English: debtor NOUN
A debtor is a country, organization, or person that owes money.