creditor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person, company, or institution to whom money is owed

   The business negotiated a new payment plan with its creditor.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who gives belief or trust to something

   He was a creditor of every rumor he heard.

From Anglo-Norman creditour and Latin creditor, from creditum, "loan," and credere, "to believe, trust, lend." The financial sense depends on trust that a debt will be repaid.

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