creditor
Example Sentences
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The leverage the city has on the pending sale includes its status as a creditor seeking to recoup public funds spent to protect the complex with fencing and deploy police security to prevent vandalism.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
In some jurisdictions, a fraud victim — like a defrauded bank — may argue for treatment as a special class of creditor with direct access to trust funds.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
The challenge for Paz's government is to warm ties with Washington without sacrificing relations with Bolivia's biggest bilateral creditor, China.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
At the same time, Europe has been the U.S.’s largest creditor, wrote George Saravelos, Deutsche Bank’s chief currency strategist, in a widely read note this past week.
From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026
The salesman had told Hale that because he wasn’t Roan’s relative, he could become his beneficiary only if he were his creditor.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Vocabulary lists containing creditor
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