debtee

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English

Etymology

From debt +‎ -ee.

Pronunciation

Noun

debtee (plural debtees)

  1. (law) One who is owed a debt; a creditor.
    • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
      If a person indebted to another makes his creditor or debtee his executor , or if such a creditor obtains letters of administration to his debtor ; in these cases the law gives him a remedy for his debt by allowing him to retain so much as will pay himself
    • 2022, Richard J. Britton, Romans and the Power of the Believer:
      The debtee also relies on the debtor to be financially successful themselves to pay the instalments of the debt as necessary.

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