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
The strength of this creditor protection depends on how the trust is drafted.
From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026
Kerr is listed in Delaware bankruptcy documents as the company’s largest creditor — owed $630,000 — although that is listed as disputed.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 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
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
Vocabulary lists containing creditor
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Personal Finance and Financial Literacy - Introductory
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