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grantor

[gran-ter, grahn-, gran-tawr, grahn-] / ˈgræn tər, ˈgrɑn-, grænˈtɔr, grɑn- /
NOUN
contributor
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NOUN
lessor
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
leaser renter
WEAK


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If the assets don’t clear the hurdle rate, the grantor simply gets their money back through the annuity payments, leaving a balance of zero.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

While your father is alive, his revocable living trust is generally treated as a grantor trust, so it uses his Social Security number and doesn’t file a separate fiduciary income-tax return.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

A separate bill introduced also last week by Wyden and Sen. Angus King, an Independent from Maine, would limit the tax advantages of grantor retained annuity trusts, or GRATs.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Spot Ethereum ETFs will directly hold Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency after Bitcoin, allowing investors to own a share of the cryptocurrency through grantor trusts.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2024

Every grantor must append to his name a seal.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles

To your point: This rather punitive tax structure encourages grantors — again, that’s you — to distribute income to beneficiaries rather than retain that income, which is then compressed into higher tax brackets.

From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026

Here’s what five recipients, and grantors told us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Buy-in from the research community could easily be obtained if referees and grantors required declaration of all sampling information.

From Nature ● Aug. 27, 2019

A method for effectively terminating the period of guardianship shall be included; this can be by means of written, electronic or telephonic notification by the grantees to the grantors.

From Encyclopedia.com ● Sep. 19, 2018

The power of the grantors, if they ever had any power, had long expired, and Marshpee was governed by new laws.

From Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained by William Apess




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