Debtor
noun
A person who owes money.
After losing his job, he became a debtor to his friends.
Often appears as...
- debtor nation
- personal debtor
noun
A person who is in debt.
The law protects debtors from harassing calls from creditors.
Often appears as...
- bankrupt debtor
- corporate debtor
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Formal
noun
A person who owes money.
After losing his job, he became a debtor to his friends.
Often appears as...
- debtor nation
- personal debtor
noun
A person who is in debt.
The law protects debtors from harassing calls from creditors.
Often appears as...
- bankrupt debtor
- corporate debtor
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Financial Stress
Refers to an individual having financial obligations causing worry or difficulty.
As a debtor, he constantly worried about paying his bills on time.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Term
Though factual, it can imply misfortune or struggle without moral judgment.
Even successful businesses can be debtors at various points.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Status
Being a debtor may be a temporary situation, not a permanent characteristic.
After receiving his bonus, he was no longer a debtor.
Pro Tip 1/3Financial Stress
Refers to an individual having financial obligations causing worry or difficulty.
As a debtor, he constantly worried about paying his bills on time.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Term
Though factual, it can imply misfortune or struggle without moral judgment.
Even successful businesses can be debtors at various points.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Status
Being a debtor may be a temporary situation, not a permanent characteristic.
After receiving his bonus, he was no longer a debtor.
Pro Tip 1/3Financial Stress
Refers to an individual having financial obligations causing worry or difficulty.
As a debtor, he constantly worried about paying his bills on time.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Term
Though factual, it can imply misfortune or struggle without moral judgment.
Even successful businesses can be debtors at various points.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Status
Being a debtor may be a temporary situation, not a permanent characteristic.
After receiving his bonus, he was no longer a debtor.
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How jails extort the...
there was never enough food, never any showers, women menstruating without any hygiene products, no medical attention whatsoever. When I asked a woman about medical attention, she laughed, and she said, "Oh, no, no. The only attention you get from the guards in there is sexual." So, they'd take the debtors to this place and they'd say,
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United by Ping Pong,...
young best athletes live and I learned table tennis and then from that was the changing point in my life that's what took me out of the whole gangster thing if it wasn't for this sport and that guy I would be the debtor and gel-like all the way I don't have any friend that I can say oh this did it this is my friend
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Time Debt PIPE Linda...
out it was going to hurt my health time debtor I hadn't heard the term before but I could feel truth all over it was I wasting time I didn't have always racing to catch up ok fine but she's suggesting I had to somehow reimburse myself for the hours of sleep I was
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The Atlantic slave...
but criminals, debtors, or prisoners of war from rival tribes. By selling them, kings enriched their own realms, and strengthened them against neighboring enemies. African kingdoms prospered from the slave trade,
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How jails extort the...
there was never enough food, never any showers, women menstruating without any hygiene products, no medical attention whatsoever. When I asked a woman about medical attention, she laughed, and she said, "Oh, no, no. The only attention you get from the guards in there is sexual." So, they'd take the debtors to this place and they'd say,
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United by Ping Pong,...
young best athletes live and I learned table tennis and then from that was the changing point in my life that's what took me out of the whole gangster thing if it wasn't for this sport and that guy I would be the debtor and gel-like all the way I don't have any friend that I can say oh this did it this is my friend
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Time Debt PIPE Linda...
out it was going to hurt my health time debtor I hadn't heard the term before but I could feel truth all over it was I wasting time I didn't have always racing to catch up ok fine but she's suggesting I had to somehow reimburse myself for the hours of sleep I was
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The Atlantic slave...
but criminals, debtors, or prisoners of war from rival tribes. By selling them, kings enriched their own realms, and strengthened them against neighboring enemies. African kingdoms prospered from the slave trade,
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Quote examples
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.
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John Turner
Canadian Statesman
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
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Robert Kiyosaki
American Author
The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.
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Michael J. Knowles
American Author
Modern economies rely on debt, which encourages productivity and growth. But that system of credit requires consequences for debtors who default.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Paul Samuelson
American Economist
We've become a debtor nation. I don't mean just on fixed-loan terms, but we own increasingly less abroad than is owned from abroad here.
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Lou Dobbs
American Journalist
The United States appears to be a debtor nation in perpetuity.
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James Howell
British Writer
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.
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John Turner
Canadian Statesman
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
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Robert Kiyosaki
American Author
The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.
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Michael J. Knowles
American Author
Modern economies rely on debt, which encourages productivity and growth. But that system of credit requires consequences for debtors who default.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Paul Samuelson
American Economist
We've become a debtor nation. I don't mean just on fixed-loan terms, but we own increasingly less abroad than is owned from abroad here.
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Lou Dobbs
American Journalist
The United States appears to be a debtor nation in perpetuity.
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James Howell
British Writer
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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