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# creditor

«creditor» in Mova's school dictionary: **owed, who is waiting to be paid back** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (creditor, creditors)

### meaning for a pupil

A person or firm to whom money is owed, who is waiting to be paid back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditor/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the person who lends money and wants it repaid at once

### examples

- The creditor asked for his money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditor/#x1)
- The shopkeeper was a creditor of the farmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditor/#x2)
- Every creditor wanted to be paid that day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditor/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths in ordinary sums; in a money-owed problem the amount owed is what the debtor must pay back to the creditor

### In the corpora

- [Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1114/)
- [Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2025/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «creditor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.