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creditor

[kred-i-ter] / ˈkrɛd ɪ tər /


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Security researcher Collin Koh said that China -- Laos's largest creditor -- was "trying to showcase that it is able to extend itself in defence diplomacy", at least with "amenable countries".

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Parent company BrewDog PLC is still expected to pay its preferential creditor, HMRC, in full for £3.66m tax owed - mainly VAT and excise duty.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The GLA said that, as is standard practice in insolvency law, it had informed the administrators of the government's interest as a potential creditor.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

China remains Zambia's largest bilateral creditor, with about US$4.5 billion owed to Chinese lenders, equivalent to roughly 15 percent of total public and publicly guaranteed debt, according to the IMF.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

I didn’t want Rufus having to face some creditor that I had angered with my twentieth-century brevity—which could come across as nineteenth-century abruptness, even discourtesy.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

A Gordon Brothers insider said this would allow creditors to recover funds.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The move creates a 10 day pause on creditors calling in debts.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that a group of senior JetBlue creditors engaged advisers, a step typically taken when creditors have doubts about repayments they are owed.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Buyout fund managers that fail to get loan extensions risk having the companies they own taken over by creditors and their investments wiped out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

If the company borrowed millions of francs and then went bust, Armand Peugeot did not owe its creditors a single franc.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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