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Definition: Creditor |
CreditorNoun1. A lender to whom money is owed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "creditor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | Something with nothing. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Business | The -- have claims against the assets of the business, usually not against any particular asset but against the assets in general. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | The person who, on a purchase and sale, agrees to give credit, i. e. the vendor. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An individual, business or other organization to whom money or something of value is owed. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | A natural or legal person who grants credit in the course of his trade, business or profession, or a group of such persons. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | A person or company that is owed money. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CreditorSynonym: Debtor & creditor. (additional references) |
| Antonym: debtor (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accounts | Books, account book, ledger; day book, cash book, pass book; journal; debtor and creditor account, cash account, running account; account current; balance, balance sheet; compte rendu, account settled, acquit, assets, expenditure, liabilities, outstanding accounts; profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, receipts. |
Credit | Creditor, lender, lessor, mortgagee; dun; usurer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Debtor and creditor sign adjust agreements. Alliance, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Farm Security Administration supervisor shows the creditor the type of soil on the farm of the Farm Security Administration client. The rehabilitation supervisor stands by. Monroe County, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one. |
Victor Hugo | A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Creditor Clearing Office will notify the Debtor Office of all debts declared to it. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | However, the construction on the project was suspended since Halla Construction and Daewoo were placed under the management of their creditor banks in 1997 and 1998. In 1999, Halla Construction made progress in their debt restructuring in order to restore their business operations. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Kyrgyz Republic | In March a debt case initiated in 2000 resulted in a ruling in favor of the creditor and the Government began confiscating Asaba's assets. (references) |
Kazakhstan | A permanent exit visa for intending emigrants requires criminal checks, documents from every creditor stating that the applicant has no outstanding debts, and letters from any close relatives with a claim to support giving their concurrence to the exit visa. (references) | |
Economic History | Korea | As of April 2001, 1,544 companies were under creditor bank CCRA. (references) |
Political Economy | JAPAN | Japan is the world's largest net creditor. (references) |
SAUDI ARABIA | Saudi Arabia is a net creditor in world financial markets. (references) | |
NORWAY | Since 1995, Norway has been a net foreign creditor and has posted budget surpluses. (references) | |
Trade | Malaysia | EXIMBANK can provide direct or intermediary loans, loan guarantees to enable a foreign buyer to secure private credit, loan guarantees to a private creditor to provide working capital to an exporter, and insurance policies for exporters to eliminate both political and commercial risk of repayment by foreign purchasers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The personal liberty of the citizen seems too sacred to be held, as in many cases it now is, at the will of a creditor to whom he is willing to surrender all the means he has of discharging his debt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Creditor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.61% of the time. "Creditor" is used about 762 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.61% | 759 | 9,024 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.39% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 762 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "creditor": bankrupt's creditor ♦ Bond creditor ♦ chirographic creditor ♦ creditor nation ♦ joint creditor ♦ preferred creditor ♦ secured creditor. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "creditor": creditor-supplier. | |
Ending with "creditor": debtor-creditor. | |
Containing "creditor": debtor-creditor-supplier, receiver-creditor relation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "creditor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kreditor (lender, mortgagee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الدائن (mortgagee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кредитор (obligee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 债权人, 債權人 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vìřitel (payee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kreditor (credit giver), kreditgiver. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schuldeiser, kredietgever (credit giver), houder van een schuldvordering (holder of a claim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ستون بستانکار, طلبکار, بستانکار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | velkoja (holder of a claim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | créditeur (credit), créancier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gläubigerin (obligee), gläubiger (believer), kreditgeber (credit grantor, credit grantors, loaner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πιστωτής (credit giver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בעל חוב (debtor), וש" (claimant, usurer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hitelezõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kreditor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | creditore (dun). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 債権者 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さいしゅ (collecting, harvesting, head priest of the Ise Shrine, master of religious ceremonies, picking, priest), さいけ"しゃ, かしぬし (landlord, lender), かしかた (credit side, how to lend, method of lending). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 채권자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | dailleyder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | editorcray credor (encumbrancer). (various references) creditor (credit, encumbrancer, lender, obligee), datornic (debtor, pay). (various references) кредитор (borrower, judgement creditor, lender, obligee). (various references) zajmodavac (lender, moneylender, pledgee), poverilac (bailer), kreditor. (various references) acreedor (entitled). (various references) fordringsägare (claimer, dun), borgenär (holder of a claim). (various references) kredi veren kimse, alacaklı (claimant, encumbrancer, obligee, payee, unpaid). (various references) кредитор (obligee). (various references) người chủ nợ. (various references) coeliwr, echwynnwr (lender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | tuku. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | creditor, creditori. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 13 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Pauper et creditor obviam fuerunt sibi utriusque inluminator est Dominus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The pore and the creaunsour metten togidere; of either the liytnere is the Lord. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD enlighteneth both their eyes. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The poor man and his creditor come face to face: the Lord gives light to their eyes equally. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang kabus nga tawo ug ang malupigon magakahibalag; Si Jehova nagapasanag sa mga mata kanilang duruha. |
| Croatian | Siromah se i gulikoža susreæu: Jahve obojici prosvjetljuje oèi. |
| Danish | Fattigmand og Blodsuger mødes, HERREN giver begges Øjne Glans. |
| Dutch | De arme en de bedrieger ontmoeten elkander; de HEERE verlicht hun beider ogen. |
| Finnish | Köyhä ja sortaja kohtaavat toisensa; kumpaisenkin silmille Herra antaa valon. |
| French | Le pauvre et l`oppresseur se rencontrent; C`est l`Éternel qui éclaire les yeux de l`un et de l`autre. |
| German | Arme und Reiche begegnen einander: beider Augen erleuchtet der HERR. |
| Hungarian | A szegény és az uzsorás ember összetalálkoznak; mind a kettõnek pedig szemeit az Úr világosítja meg. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Seorang miskin dan penindasnya mempunyai persamaan; kepada kedua-duanya TUHAN memberi mata untuk melihat cahaya kehidupan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa orang kaya dan orang miskin bertemu seorang dengan seorang, maka Tuhan menerangkan mata keduanya. |
| Italian | Il povero e l'usuraio si incontrano; è il Signore che illumina gli occhi di tutti e due. |
| Maori | ¶ E tutaki ana te rawakore raua ko te kaitukino ki a raua; ko Ihowa te kaiwhakamarama o nga kanohi o raua tokorua. |
| Norwegian | Den fattige og den som undertrykker ham, møtes; Herren gir begges øine deres lys. |
| Portuguese | O pobre e o opressor se encontram; o Senhor alumia os olhos de ambos. |
| Rumanian | Sqracul wi asupritorul se kntklnesc, dar Domnul le lumineazq ochii la amkndoi, |
| Spanish | El pobre y el opresor tienen esto en común: A ambos Jehovah les alumbra los ojos. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "creditor": creditors. (additional references) | |
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"Creditor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Corregidor, credidit, credinta, Crediou, credita, credito. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "creditor" (pronounced kre"duter) |
| 6 | -r e" d u t er | predator. |
| 5 | -e" d u t er | editor. |
| 4 | -d u t er | auditor. |
| 3 | -u t er | accelerometer, altimeter, Amphitheater, anemometer, arbiter, barometer, capacitor, catheter, comparator, competitor, conservator, conspirator, contributor, densitometer, depositor, diameter, distributor, elater, estimator, executor, exhibitor, fluorometer, goniometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, inheritor, inhibitor, inquisitor, interferometer, interlocutor, interpreter, janitor, kilometer, magnetometer, marketer, micrometer, monitor, odometer, orator, orbiter, parameter, perimeter, photometer, picketer, polarimeter, progenitor, proprietor, quieter, rioter, Sen, senator, sequitur, solicitor, spectrometer, speedometer, telemarketer, tensiometer, Theater, theatre, thermometer, trumpeter, visitor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: director. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: cordite. | |
-2 letters: coedit, corder, corrie, credit, direct, dotier, editor, erotic, orrice, record, rector, rioted, rioter, torrid, triced, triode. | |
-3 letters: cider, cited, citer, coder, cored, corer, coted, credo, cried, crier, crore, decor, dicer, dicot, direr, doter, drier, droit, edict, order, recti, recto, retro, riced, ricer, rider, tired, toric, trice, tried, trier, trode. | |
-4 letters: cedi, cero. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: creditors, directors, directory, predictor, recordist, retrodict. | |
+2 letters: codirector, cointerred, cordierite, descriptor, eradicator, introducer, overdirect, predictors, recordists, retrodicts, tricolored. | |
+3 letters: codirectors, cordierites, counterraid, depreciator, descriptors, dipterocarp, directorate, directorial, directories, doctrinaire, eradicators, hydrometric, incorrupted, interdictor, introducers, overdirects, predicatory, radiometric, radiotracer, recordation, redirection, reintroduce, retroceding, retrodicted, subdirector, thermoduric, tricornered. | |
+4 letters: androcentric, correctitude, counterfired, counterraids, creditworthy, decorticator, democratizer, depreciators, depreciatory, dipterocarps, directorates, directorship, doctrinaires, incorporated, intercropped, intercrossed, interdictors, interdictory, overdirected, overdramatic, radiotracers, reciprocated, reconnoitred, recordations, redecorating, redecoration, redirections, reintroduced, reintroduces, reproduction, reproductive, retrodicting, retrodiction, retrodictive, subdirectors. | |
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