debtor

[ˈdetər]

Definition:
1. A person, a country or an organization that owes money.
2. A person who owes a creditor.

Use 'debtor' in a sentence:

1. Earlier this month, the government changed some of the rules about how mortgage defaulters' debt is calculated, and how much banks can deduct from debtors paychecks.
2. As a rule, a lower credit rating means higher borrowing costs for debtor nations.
3. Never in a debtors' prison?
4. After the debtor has discharged his debt, the deposit shall either be retained as partial payment of the debt or be returned.
5. America, the world's biggest debtor, is going to save more and borrow less.
6. Countries with a deficit after all the economic transactions have been recorded are called debtor nations.
7. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
8. Many will be unable to pay off the loan and risk becoming “ zombie debtors “.
9. He died in debtor's prison in Bristol a year later.
10. In the third scenario, the creditor pretends that the debtor hasn't gone bankrupt, stretches the repayment, and foregoes interest.
11. It is merely an alternative form of repayment by the debtor for the debt he contracted.
12. Where the debtor is unable to repay debts that are due, the creditors may file to declare the debtor bankrupt.
13. If the debtor countries had been allowed to default, the banking system would have collapsed.
14. And (2) the order of payment can be served on the debtor.
15. Debtors' information is available to check through the app and individuals are encouraged to whistle-blow if they believe the person can afford to pay back what they owe but is refusing to do so.
16. Private spending in the debtor nations fell sharply.
17. China has launched an app allowing users to identify nearby debtors and report those who appear to be shirking the responsibility of paying back what they owe.
18. But the hopeful maxim of Dickens's perennial debtor that "something will turn up" nourishes American housebuilders.
19. The major focuses of modern debtor - creditor law is to regulate compensatory damages.
20. cover the losses.One of the debtors owed only ＄ 10 ， but the other was ＄ 79 in and had left no forwarding address.Ben was at his stupidity for allowing this bill to grow so large.
21. Dickens' early life was spent mostly in debtor's prison because his poor dad couldn't pay off his debts so the whole family had to join him in the slammer, a fairly typical practice in Victorian England.
22. Italy's current debt load is around 1.8 trillion euros, making it the fourth-highest public debtor in the world.
23. I'll call each of our major debtors and have a talk with them.
24. The document must specify certain information which has to be given to the debtor.
25. Bank officials argued that it is not their job to chase down every asset of every bank debtor.
26. If so, please name the debtor and creditor and describe the circumstances surrounding the guarantee.
27. Bankruptcy. A debtor may file for bankruptcy, which is called "voluntary bankruptcy".
28. Article 8. The debtor, upon the agreement of its superior departments in charge, may apply for the declaration of bankruptcy.
29. If they do-as it seems they might-the implications will be profound: good for debtors, bad for creditors and, above all, worrying for the vigour of global demand.
30. A purchasera bond buys a credit derivative to cover the risk of the bond's debtor defaulting.
31. But there is a second definition of forgiveness -to relinquish resentment against the debtor. This is harder to understand.
32. All four of the debtor countries in the chart enjoyed housing booms.
33. My brother is in Debtors Anonymous.
34. Hiring sufferers of HIV/ AIDS to intimidate debtors or people whose homes developers want to level is relatively common in China, says the founder of a non-governmental organization that helps victims of the disease.
35. But the result is that foreign creditors have a right to be more suspicious of debtor countries.
36. Zombie debtor refers to someone who is unable to pay off the capital of the loan, and whose repayments2 only service the interest charge.
37. Octa was sent to an interrogation room used to question debtors, where he was beset by three third-party collectors: Arif Lukman, Henry Waslington, and Donal Harris.
38. Amending acts in 19331934, and 1935 attempted to help honest debtors rehabilitate themselves.
39. In this transaction the lender is essentially lending more money to its debtor.
40. A custodian or trustee is appointed to oversee the debtor's property to protect it from loss.
41. That debtor in a sales contract is the Seller.
42. This set the pattern: the debtor countries were subjected to harsh market discipline but when the system was in danger, the normal rules were suspended.
43. The Higher People's Court of Herbei in northern China released the software, called "a map of deadbeat debtors," last week as an add-on to the popular WeChat messaging service.
44. The net effect was that debtor countries fell into severe recession-Latin America lost a decade of growth-but the banking system was allowed to earn its way out of a hole.
45. About two-thirds of that decline reflects default, as banks foreclosed on delinquent debtors or borrowers ran away.
46. Mortgage is a security interest in real property. The debtor whose property is subject to the mortgage is called the mortgagor.
47. He crowded the debtor for payment.
48. Indonesian banks are known to hound debtors, but what happened to Octa defies comprehension.
49. These perpetual debtors/ serfs will probably never own the home outright1, thanks to cyclical refinancing ( used to fund conspicuous2 consumption) and property taxes.
50. Having spent his rich wife's fortune, the Major ended up in a debtors' prison.
51. A debtor, unable to pay, has to swallow insults from his creditor.
52. By contrast, America is now, as it was then, the world's biggest debtor nation.
53. I am a debtor to the flesh.
54. Slowly but surely, however, bankruptcy law has changed in favour of the corporate debtor.
55. Bankruptcy affords the debtor in possession a number of mechanisms to restructure its business.
56. Most creditors believe that the debtor needs to take the lead in addressing their own problems.
57. In other words, America is savings-starved, a net-debtor nation, and the rest of the world is financing her.
58. Voters in creditor countries resent endless bail-outs; in debtor countries they resent endless belt-tightening.
59. A balanced deal is more likely to be accepted by voters, in both creditor and debtor states, and to assuage markets.
60. I remained his debtor.
61. If a debtor shall be compelled by the decision of a people's court.