debtee

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/dɛˈtiː/

noun

One who is owed a debt; a creditor.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

noundebtee (plural debtees)

plural debtees

  1. lawOne who is owed a debt; a creditor.

    The debtee also relies on the debtor to be financially successful themselves to pay the instalments of the debt as necessary.

    2022, Richard J. Britton, Romans and the Power of the Believer
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    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

    1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

Origin

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