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CREDITOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("creditor" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creditor"):
mortgage holder; mortgagee (the person who accepts a mortgage)
Antonym:
debtor (a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt)
Derivation:
credit (accounting: enter as credit)
Context examples:
“It was greatly my wish that he should do so,” he added, “as soon as his marriage was fixed on. And I think you will agree with me, in considering the removal from that corps as highly advisable, both on his account and my niece's. It is Mr. Wickham's intention to go into the regulars; and among his former friends, there are still some who are able and willing to assist him in the army. He has the promise of an ensigncy in General —'s regiment, now quartered in the North. It is an advantage to have it so far from this part of the kingdom. He promises fairly; and I hope among different people, where they may each have a character to preserve, they will both be more prudent. I have written to Colonel Forster, to inform him of our present arrangements, and to request that he will satisfy the various creditors of Mr. Wickham in and near Brighton, with assurances of speedy payment, for which I have pledged myself. And will you give yourself the trouble of carrying similar assurances to his creditors in Meryton, of whom I shall subjoin a list according to his information? He has given in all his debts; I hope at least he has not deceived us. Haggerston has our directions, and all will be completed in a week. They will then join his regiment, unless they are first invited to Longbourn; and I understand from Mrs. Gardiner, that my niece is very desirous of seeing you all before she leaves the South. She is well, and begs to be dutifully remembered to you and her mother. Yours, etc., E. GARDINER.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
If Mr. Micawber's creditors will not give him time, said Mrs. Micawber, they must take the consequences; and the sooner they bring it to an issue the better.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“And you’ll probably find that your creditors will impound the banking account of Mr. Cornelius,” said Holmes.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The other party might be putting you off while secretly filing for bankruptcy, and if you are not a secured creditor, you may fear you won’t receive all that is due you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Where, for the first time in many revolving years, the overwhelming pressure of pecuniary liabilities was not proclaimed, from day to day, by importune voices declining to vacate the passage; where there was no knocker on the door for any creditor to appeal to; where personal service of process was not required, and detainees were merely lodged at the gate!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was his belief that if he were given time in which to realize them, all would be well and every creditor paid in full.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Micawber's affairs, although past their crisis, were very much involved by reason of a certain Deed, of which I used to hear a great deal, and which I suppose, now, to have been some former composition with his creditors, though I was so far from being clear about it then, that I am conscious of having confounded it with those demoniacal parchments which are held to have, once upon a time, obtained to a great extent in Germany.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Those which are ticked have been traced on the London market, but the others, presumably, were still in the possession of Carey, and young Neligan, according to his own account, was anxious to recover them in order to do the right thing by his father’s creditors.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His creditors were not implacable; and Mrs. Micawber informed me that even the revengeful boot-maker had declared in open court that he bore him no malice, but that when money was owing to him he liked to be paid.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If I had known that young man, at the period when my difficulties came to a crisis, all I can say is, that I believe my creditors would have been a great deal better managed than they were.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
