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How to use creditor in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun

Creditor means a person to whom a debt is owed. Example: “The creditor demanded immediate payment.”

Examples of creditor by meaning

nounA person to whom a debt is owed.

  • The creditor demanded immediate payment.
  • She met with her creditors to negotiate the debt.
  • The creditor took legal action against the bankrupt company.

More sentences with creditor

  • In France, syndics are appointed by the creditors of a bankrupt to manage the property.From the entry syndic
  • The store needs to liquidize its stock so it can pay its creditors.From the entry liquidize
  • He became my creditor as the result of a subrogation by a vendor.From the entry subrogation
  • My creditors insist on being repaid in full before the end of the month.From the entry in full
  • The law protects both the debtor and the creditor.From the entry debtor
  • He stalled the creditors as long as he could.From the entry stall
  • With tact and management it would be possible to partially satisfy creditors, and keep up appearances for six months more.From the entry keep up appearances
  • The surety claimed relief in terms of the beneficium excussionis, thus obliging the creditor to excuss against the principal debtor.From the entry excuss
  • There has been excussion against the principal debtor, who has no assets. The creditor is therefore proceeding against the surety.From the entry excussion
  • He has settled with his creditors.From the entry settle
  • A co-debtor that pays off a principal creditor has a choice.2019, Ginsberg, Martin, Kelley, Ginsberg and Martin on Bankruptcy, Aspen Publishers Online, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry subrogate
  • The effect of the running of the domiciliary nonclaim statute on Maine creditors is unclear.2016, James E. Mitchell, Maine Probate Procedure, →ISBN. From the entry nonclaim statute
  • Like foreclosure, an assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC) is a creature of state law.2010, Pepper Hamilton, “Alternatives to bankruptcy”, in John Wm. Butler, Jr, editor, Navigating Today's Environment: The Directors' and…. From the entry ABC
  • Looked around the lounge for tipped-off creditors – one beetly glare and I would have bolted.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN. From the entry beetly
  • Debtors are bound both personally and hypothecarily towards their creditor, whereas holders are bound only hypothecarily.1981, McGill Law Journal, volume 27, page 726. From the entry hypothecarily
  • The defendant's creditor was the partnership and not the deceased Geevarghese.1927, The Travancore Law Journal, page 127. From the entry Geevarghese
  • Under that provision, the mills would be closed, the stay would be lifted, and the secured creditors would take possession.2019, Lynn M. LoPucki, Elizabeth Warren, Robert M. Lawless, Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach, page 107. From the entry drop-dead
  • Probably neither the debtor nor the secured creditors believed that a sale could be completed before the drop-dead date.2019, Lynn M. LoPucki, Elizabeth Warren, Robert M. Lawless, Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach, page 107. From the entry drop-dead
  • With a few strokes, the international creditors helped dismember the FRY and put a fiscal headlock on the newly “independent” republics.2000, Michael Parenti, chapter 2, in To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia, New York: Verso, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry fry
  • What provision are you asked to make or will you make for cautionable interests as a judgment creditor?1921 January-February, “The Torrens Falacy”, in Charles E. George, editor, The Lawyer and Banker and Southern Bench and Bar Review, volume…. From the entry cautionable
  • The parastatistic distribution of a total debt owed to a large number of creditors is considered in relation to the duration of these debts.2016, I.A. Molotkov, N.A. Ryabova, “Critical value of the total debt in view of the debts durations”, in arXiv. From the entry parastatistic
  • My chief creditor is, unhappily, my most bitter enemy—a rascally fellow, Sam Brewer, whom I was once compelled to horse-whip on Newmarket Heath.1927 March 5, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place”, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert]…. From the entry rascally
  • A most interesting and thoroughly briefed case involving the right of creditors in a life insurance policy is that of Keckley v.1914, Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of the state of Colorado, page 181. From the entry briefed
  • She would be able to arrange her life as she pleased, to soar into that empyrean of security where creditors cannot penetrate.1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry empyrean
  • This is mostly because we consider the willingness of EA creditors to continue providing further support to Greece despite Greek non-compliance with programme conditionality to have fallen substantially.2012 February 6, Willem Buiter, Ebrahim Rahbari, “Rising Risks of Greek Euro Area Exit”, in Willem H. Buiter, archived from the original…. From the entry Grexit
  • The latter sold the goods to a customer who was cashier to certain creditors of the agents without disclosing the factorial capacity in which they acted.2004, The Digest: Annotated British, Commonwealth, and European Cases. From the entry factorial
  • On the working papers it is easiest to run through the calculation from the charge by item to the profit budget, adding opening creditors and deducting opening preparements.1988, Philip A. Vale, editor, Financial Management Handbook, 3rd edition, page 180. From the entry preparement
  • From servants to creditors (and some actors are double-cast), from alehouse keeper to parson, all create genuine individuals on stage, and make fresh theater of a vintage work.1984 October 20, Clara Hieronymus, “Stylish Discipline Boosts Elizabethan ‘Old Debts’”, in The Tennessean, volume 79, number 197…. From the entry alehouse keeper
  • It represented the rural middle classes against the bigger men, especially against their creditors, but it neither represented nor cared for the dwarf-holders, still less the agricultural labourers.1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 122. From the entry dwarf-holder
  • Perhaps it was Powlett's memory of Boswell's charm that caused him, when he shot the moon and moved to France to escape creditors, to take with him his father-in-law's papers.1950, Christopher Morley, Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 (Preface). From the entry shoot the moon

Meaning of creditor

  1. noun A person to whom a debt is owed.
  2. noun One who gives credence to something; a believer.

Full definition of creditor

Questions about creditor in a sentence

How do you use creditor in a sentence?
Creditor is used as a noun. For example: “The creditor demanded immediate payment.”
What is a short sentence with creditor?
“The creditor demanded immediate payment.”
What does creditor mean?
Creditor means a person to whom a debt is owed.

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