CREDITOR
Dictionary entry overview: What does creditor mean? • CREDITOR (noun)
The noun CREDITOR has 1 sense:
1. a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists
Familiarity information: CREDITOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CREDITOR (noun)
Meaning:
A person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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)
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