creditor
Example Sentences
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If there is not enough money in the estate to pay those bills, the creditors won’t get paid.
From Salon
“You really see the centrality of Nvidia to the financial moment, this capex frenzy. They sit in this strange position of being supplier, investor and creditor.”
It said after consistently losing money, NCP could no longer afford to pay its creditors and was unable to scrap "long-term, inflexible" leases on loss-making sites.
From BBC
Glutality’s largest unsecured creditor is insurance giant United HealthCare, which has asserted an $8.5 million claim against the start-up citing “overpayment for medical services.”
From Barron's
Now foreign creditors, including many in the Middle East and Asia fretting over this conflict’s hit to their economies, own much of it.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.