creditorn.

Brit.

/ˈkrɛdᵻtə/, U.S.

/ˈkrɛdədər/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s credytour, late Middle English–1600s creditour, 1500s creaditor, 1500s creditoure, 1500s creditowr, 1500s credytor, 1500s– creditor, 1600s credetor, 1700s criditure; also Scottish pre-1700 cradetour, pre-1700 crediter, pre-1700 creditturr.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French creditour; Latin crēditor.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French creditour person to whom a debt is owing (mid 14th cent. in Anglo-Norman; compare Old French, Middle French crediteur , credeteur (13th cent.); French créditeur ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin crēditor person to whom money is due, in post-classical Latin also person who gives surety to another (1433) < crēdit- , past participial stem of crēdere (see credit v.) + -or -or suffix. Compare Old Occitan creditor (15th cent.), Italian creditore (13th cent.).In sense 2 reflecting the writing of Creditor at the top of one side of personal accounts, in apposition to the person's name. With sense 3 compare creancer n. 2.

I. Business and Finance.

1. A person to whom a debt is owing; a person who sells or lends on credit. Correlative to debtor. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > creditor

creancera1382

creditor?1435

debtee?1530

truster1571

?1435 in C. L. Kingsford Chrons. London (1905) 30 (MED) The same creditours and owners off the money ffull much ben greved.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 7^v Make satisfacion to your creditours.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 47/2 Nowe vnthriftes ryote and runne in Dette..and bidde their creditours gooe whistle.

1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §38 B iiij Deley..which happeneth by the slacknesse either of the creditor, or debtor.

1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 188 He hath more debtors in knowledge among the present Writers, then Creditors among the ancient Poets.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iii. 21 There is a soule counts thee her Creditor, And with aduantage meanes to pay thy loue.

1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo: Contemplatio Mortis (rev. ed.) 23 Though they cannot pay their creditours.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. iv. 78 These poor Prisoners..are tyranically insulted over by their rigid Creditors, till the debt is satisfied.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vi. 116 He asked me, who were our Creditors? and, where we should find Money to pay them.

1793 R. Bell Cases Court of Session 1790–2 73 The law requires the oath of the creditor as well as the voucher of the debt.

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. i. 2 It will just pay off our most importunate creditors.

a1849 H. Coleridge Poems (1851) II. 117 Let man that on his own desert relies, And deems himself the creditor of God, Think how these babes have earn'd their paradise, How small the work of their small period.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 677/2 A creditor's right of self-redress by apprehension..and confinement of his debtor.

1910 J. L. King Hist. San Francisco Stock & Exchange Board xii. 232 That afternoon the creditors..were told to send in their accounts, which were promptly settled.

1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 151 Not only will nurses feel good because they are relieving pain, but also because they are taking little reward for it; therefore they are permanent emotional creditors.

2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Oct. 16/2 As the United States accumulates ever more staggering loads of debt, some of its creditors fear that it may try to deliberately depreciate the dollar.

2. Accounting. The right-hand side or column of an account, where money received is listed, the credit side (abbreviated Cr.); an entry on the credit side. Cf. credit n. 12.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > side or column

debitor1483

creditor1543

creditrice1588

contra1648

credit side1652

credit account1701

debtor1712

money column1738

red ink1917

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > side or column > sum entered on credit side

credit1638

creditor1660

book credit1721

plus side1900

1543 in S. Paterson (1779) 74 (title) Here ensueth a profitable treatyce called the instrument or boke to learn to knowe the good order of the kepyng of the famouse reconyng, called in latyn, Dare & Habere, and in Englyshe, Debitor and Creditor, &c.

1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Cv^v The left side..is Debitor, and the other Creditor.

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 371 And if he had beene a loser by the Account of profit and losse, then must he make his Capitall Debtor, and the said Account Creditor, to ballance the matter.

1660 T. Willsford Debitor & Creditor in Scales Commerce & Trade 208 Place the Creditors upon the right-hand page, and all the Debitors on the left, the pages number'd by 1. 1. 2. 2 so as the Dr. and Cr. make but one folio upon either side.

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xiv. 216 Stock Debtor. To cash of my £father..£800. Stock Creditor... By house-rent at 50l. per ann... £500.

1757 J. Mair Book-keeping Methodiz'd (ed. 5) ii. i. i. 11 A simple post is that which has but one Debtor and one Creditor.

1836 Penny Cycl. V. 164/1 Exacting..equilibrium between debtor and creditor in each entry.

1906 J. L. Montgomery Mod. Book-keeping & Bus. Pract. 16 As applied to an impersonal account, Cash for example, Debtor signifies merely the left-hand side of the account, and Creditor the right-hand side.

1988 M. Pullen Do your own Bookkeeping ii. 45 Most invoices will be for credit purchases and will be written into the Purchase Book and all cheques in payment of such invoices will, therefore, be analysed to a column headed 'Creditors' in the Bank Book.

†II. General senses. rare.

3. A person who stands surety (for a person or thing). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > agreement > security > [noun] > a bondsman or guarantor

borrowa1000

festermanOE

inborghc1175

pledge1348

surety1428

warrant1478

soverty1517

creditor1523

cautionerc1565

warranter1583

caution1586

warranty1586

security1600

stipulator1610

engager1611

pawner1611

undertaker1616

bond1632

ensurer1654

cautionary1655

security man1662

voucher1667

warrantee1668

respondent1672

guarand1674

guarantee1679

guaranty1684

hypothecator1828

warrantor1850

guarantor1853

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. cclxiii Frende appease yourselfe, thou shalte be well payed or this day be ended; kepe the nere me, I shall be thy credytour.

4. A person who gives credence to something, a believer. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > [noun] > a believer

professorc1400

believer?a1425

creditor1609

creditrix1611

setter-forth1611

1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iii. lxxxiii. 84 The easie creditours of nouelties.

1861 A. Smith Edwin of Deira iii. 121 I am no idle creditor of tales Brought by the brushwood 'gainst the lordly oak.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and appositive (in Branch I.)

creditor account n.

ΚΠ

1767 Babler II. No. 96. 153 Sometimes he compounds matters, and opens a sort of debtor and creditor account between his conscience and himself, with which he is not a little satisfied.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 7/3 Creditor-account balances.

1990 R. Izhar Accounting, Costing, & Managem. i. ii. 20 Check the individual debtor and creditor accounts in the sales and purchase ledgers with their respective control accounts.

creditor column n.

ΚΠ

1777 Statutes at Large Reign George III (1780) XIII. 71 In a Creditor Column or Side, an Account of the Application of all Monies so received, assessed, raised, and paid.

1861 F. H. Carter Book-keeping iii. 40 The book..should be ruled with the debtor and creditor columns on the same page,..no necessity existing for an extension of periodical balances.

1920 H. T. Wright Organisation as applied to Industr. Probl. x. 88 These summaries are adjusted from time to time as the orders are completed by means of the debtor and creditor columns.

2010 S. Elias & B. K. Laurence Bankruptcy for Small Business Owners ii. ix. 191/2 If someone else can be legally forced to pay your debt to a priority creditor, enter an ‘X’ in this column and list the codebtor in the creditor column of this schedule.

creditor country n.

ΚΠ

1802 H. Thornton Enq. Nature Paper Credit v. 135 Let the country in debt prove itself to be somewhat more desirous to pay its debt, a debt of course running at interest, than the creditor country is to receive payment; and the exchange will be even in favour of the debtor.

1881 H. H. Gibbs Double Standard 68 England, it is said, being a creditor country, would always be paid in the cheaper metal.

1944 E. W. Kemmerer Gold & Gold Standard vii. 187 The currencies of debtor countries are much more likely to depreciate than are those of creditor countries.

2004 Foreign Policy July 61 The United States, Japan, and most of the leading creditor countries in Europe showed little interest in extending debt relief or increasing development assistance.

creditor nation n.

ΚΠ

1795 Amer. Remembrancer No. 17 241 The creditor nation had manifested the most hostile intentions.

1897 Daily News 30 Nov. 4/6 This country, the great creditor nation of the world.

1948 G. Crowther Outl. Money (ed. 2) ix. 328 The view that the so-called ‘creditor’ nation may be just as responsible as the ‘debtors’ for the disequilibrium in the exchanges.

2002 Nation (N.Y.) 23 Sept. 13/2 The creditor nations will eventually assert their leverage over the United States.

C2.

creditor side n. the credit side of an account.

ΚΠ

1553 J. Peele Maner & Fourme Perfecte Reconyng iv. sig. Av^v It must haue one accompt proper in the Quaterne, conteinyng bothe a debitour and creditour side.

1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Cv The Creditor syde of this your first leafe, declareth in briefe sentences where the estate of your Chyst in money is bestowed.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 549. ¶1 When I look upon the Creditor-side, I find little more than blank Paper.

1781 Scots Mag. Jan. 46/2 There appeared on the debtor-side of the account, 9,708.626l. and on the creditor side 13,458,877 l. so that the balance in favour of the company appears to be 3,750,251 l.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xvii. 133 Habitually..quoting figures which you know to be as wilfully one-sided as a statement of any complicated account that should be all Creditor side and no Debtor, or all Debtor side and no Creditor.

1916 Jrnl. Amer. Bankers Assoc. Aug. 116/1 When we deal with the creditor side of the account, we will find that a certain portion of the bank's funds is always invested.

1999 R. Ruggles in N. D. Ruggles & R. Ruggles National Accounting & Econ. Policy vi. 136 This system was fully articulated in that each accounting entry appeared twice—once on the debtor side and once on the creditor side.

Derivatives

ˈcreditorship n.

ΚΠ

1648 J. Owen Salus Electorum iii. vii. 144 Any one may without any wrong, goe off from the right of supreame Dominion or Creditorship, but the Lord cannot omit the Act of punishment.

1797 H. T. Colebrooke tr. J. Tarkapañcānana Digest Hindu Law I. i. §ii. 11 Creditorship and debtorship are distinguished by some peculiarities.

1868 Putnam's Mag. Apr. 496/2 He had half a mind to go to Europe, and so spare her the sight of his creditorship.

1910 Amer. Rev. of Reviews July 128/2 Such mysteries are cleared up as the means whereby the owner of a convertible bond has his choice of creditorship or partnership.

2000 Independent (Nexis) 3 Sept. 3 There are so many options available to the Revenue but, given the advantage afforded by its preferential creditorship, it can go straight to the hard end of the scale.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	creditor
释义	creditorn. Brit. /ˈkrɛdᵻtə/, U.S. /ˈkrɛdədər/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s credytour, late Middle English–1600s creditour, 1500s creaditor, 1500s creditoure, 1500s creditowr, 1500s credytor, 1500s– creditor, 1600s credetor, 1700s criditure; also Scottish pre-1700 cradetour, pre-1700 crediter, pre-1700 creditturr. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French creditour; Latin crēditor. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French creditour person to whom a debt is owing (mid 14th cent. in Anglo-Norman; compare Old French, Middle French crediteur , credeteur (13th cent.); French créditeur ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin crēditor person to whom money is due, in post-classical Latin also person who gives surety to another (1433) < crēdit- , past participial stem of crēdere (see credit v.) + -or -or suffix. Compare Old Occitan creditor (15th cent.), Italian creditore (13th cent.).In sense 2 reflecting the writing of Creditor at the top of one side of personal accounts, in apposition to the person's name. With sense 3 compare creancer n. 2. I. Business and Finance. 1. A person to whom a debt is owing; a person who sells or lends on credit. Correlative to debtor. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > creditor creancera1382 creditor?1435 debtee?1530 truster1571 ?1435 in C. L. Kingsford Chrons. London (1905) 30 (MED) The same creditours and owners off the money ffull much ben greved. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 7^v Make satisfacion to your creditours. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 47/2 Nowe vnthriftes ryote and runne in Dette..and bidde their creditours gooe whistle. 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §38 B iiij Deley..which happeneth by the slacknesse either of the creditor, or debtor. 1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 188 He hath more debtors in knowledge among the present Writers, then Creditors among the ancient Poets. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iii. 21 There is a soule counts thee her Creditor, And with aduantage meanes to pay thy loue. View more context for this quotation 1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo: Contemplatio Mortis (rev. ed.) 23 Though they cannot pay their creditours. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. iv. 78 These poor Prisoners..are tyranically insulted over by their rigid Creditors, till the debt is satisfied. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vi. 116 He asked me, who were our Creditors? and, where we should find Money to pay them. 1793 R. Bell Cases Court of Session 1790–2 73 The law requires the oath of the creditor as well as the voucher of the debt. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. i. 2 It will just pay off our most importunate creditors. a1849 H. Coleridge Poems (1851) II. 117 Let man that on his own desert relies, And deems himself the creditor of God, Think how these babes have earn'd their paradise, How small the work of their small period. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 677/2 A creditor's right of self-redress by apprehension..and confinement of his debtor. 1910 J. L. King Hist. San Francisco Stock & Exchange Board xii. 232 That afternoon the creditors..were told to send in their accounts, which were promptly settled. 1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 151 Not only will nurses feel good because they are relieving pain, but also because they are taking little reward for it; therefore they are permanent emotional creditors. 2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Oct. 16/2 As the United States accumulates ever more staggering loads of debt, some of its creditors fear that it may try to deliberately depreciate the dollar. 2. Accounting. The right-hand side or column of an account, where money received is listed, the credit side (abbreviated Cr.); an entry on the credit side. Cf. credit n. 12. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > side or column debitor1483 creditor1543 creditrice1588 contra1648 credit side1652 credit account1701 debtor1712 money column1738 red ink1917 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > side or column > sum entered on credit side credit1638 creditor1660 book credit1721 plus side1900 1543 in S. Paterson (1779) 74 (title) Here ensueth a profitable treatyce called the instrument or boke to learn to knowe the good order of the kepyng of the famouse reconyng, called in latyn, Dare & Habere, and in Englyshe, Debitor and Creditor, &c. 1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Cv^v The left side..is Debitor, and the other Creditor. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 371 And if he had beene a loser by the Account of profit and losse, then must he make his Capitall Debtor, and the said Account Creditor, to ballance the matter. 1660 T. Willsford Debitor & Creditor in Scales Commerce & Trade 208 Place the Creditors upon the right-hand page, and all the Debitors on the left, the pages number'd by 1. 1. 2. 2 so as the Dr. and Cr. make but one folio upon either side. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xiv. 216 Stock Debtor. To cash of my £father..£800. Stock Creditor... By house-rent at 50l. per ann... £500. 1757 J. Mair Book-keeping Methodiz'd (ed. 5) ii. i. i. 11 A simple post is that which has but one Debtor and one Creditor. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 164/1 Exacting..equilibrium between debtor and creditor in each entry. 1906 J. L. Montgomery Mod. Book-keeping & Bus. Pract. 16 As applied to an impersonal account, Cash for example, Debtor signifies merely the left-hand side of the account, and Creditor the right-hand side. 1988 M. Pullen Do your own Bookkeeping ii. 45 Most invoices will be for credit purchases and will be written into the Purchase Book and all cheques in payment of such invoices will, therefore, be analysed to a column headed 'Creditors' in the Bank Book. †II. General senses. rare. 3. A person who stands surety (for a person or thing). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > security > [noun] > a bondsman or guarantor borrowa1000 festermanOE inborghc1175 pledge1348 surety1428 warrant1478 soverty1517 creditor1523 cautionerc1565 warranter1583 caution1586 warranty1586 security1600 stipulator1610 engager1611 pawner1611 undertaker1616 bond1632 ensurer1654 cautionary1655 security man1662 voucher1667 warrantee1668 respondent1672 guarand1674 guarantee1679 guaranty1684 hypothecator1828 warrantor1850 guarantor1853 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. cclxiii Frende appease yourselfe, thou shalte be well payed or this day be ended; kepe the nere me, I shall be thy credytour. 4. A person who gives credence to something, a believer. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > [noun] > a believer professorc1400 believer?a1425 creditor1609 creditrix1611 setter-forth1611 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iii. lxxxiii. 84 The easie creditours of nouelties. 1861 A. Smith Edwin of Deira iii. 121 I am no idle creditor of tales Brought by the brushwood 'gainst the lordly oak. Compounds C1. General attributive and appositive (in Branch I.) creditor account n. ΚΠ 1767 Babler II. No. 96. 153 Sometimes he compounds matters, and opens a sort of debtor and creditor account between his conscience and himself, with which he is not a little satisfied. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 7/3 Creditor-account balances. 1990 R. Izhar Accounting, Costing, & Managem. i. ii. 20 Check the individual debtor and creditor accounts in the sales and purchase ledgers with their respective control accounts. creditor column n. ΚΠ 1777 Statutes at Large Reign George III (1780) XIII. 71 In a Creditor Column or Side, an Account of the Application of all Monies so received, assessed, raised, and paid. 1861 F. H. Carter Book-keeping iii. 40 The book..should be ruled with the debtor and creditor columns on the same page,..no necessity existing for an extension of periodical balances. 1920 H. T. Wright Organisation as applied to Industr. Probl. x. 88 These summaries are adjusted from time to time as the orders are completed by means of the debtor and creditor columns. 2010 S. Elias & B. K. Laurence Bankruptcy for Small Business Owners ii. ix. 191/2 If someone else can be legally forced to pay your debt to a priority creditor, enter an ‘X’ in this column and list the codebtor in the creditor column of this schedule. creditor country n. ΚΠ 1802 H. Thornton Enq. Nature Paper Credit v. 135 Let the country in debt prove itself to be somewhat more desirous to pay its debt, a debt of course running at interest, than the creditor country is to receive payment; and the exchange will be even in favour of the debtor. 1881 H. H. Gibbs Double Standard 68 England, it is said, being a creditor country, would always be paid in the cheaper metal. 1944 E. W. Kemmerer Gold & Gold Standard vii. 187 The currencies of debtor countries are much more likely to depreciate than are those of creditor countries. 2004 Foreign Policy July 61 The United States, Japan, and most of the leading creditor countries in Europe showed little interest in extending debt relief or increasing development assistance. creditor nation n. ΚΠ 1795 Amer. Remembrancer No. 17 241 The creditor nation had manifested the most hostile intentions. 1897 Daily News 30 Nov. 4/6 This country, the great creditor nation of the world. 1948 G. Crowther Outl. Money (ed. 2) ix. 328 The view that the so-called ‘creditor’ nation may be just as responsible as the ‘debtors’ for the disequilibrium in the exchanges. 2002 Nation (N.Y.) 23 Sept. 13/2 The creditor nations will eventually assert their leverage over the United States. C2. creditor side n. the credit side of an account. ΚΠ 1553 J. Peele Maner & Fourme Perfecte Reconyng iv. sig. Av^v It must haue one accompt proper in the Quaterne, conteinyng bothe a debitour and creditour side. 1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Cv The Creditor syde of this your first leafe, declareth in briefe sentences where the estate of your Chyst in money is bestowed. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 549. ¶1 When I look upon the Creditor-side, I find little more than blank Paper. 1781 Scots Mag. Jan. 46/2 There appeared on the debtor-side of the account, 9,708.626l. and on the creditor side 13,458,877 l. so that the balance in favour of the company appears to be 3,750,251 l. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xvii. 133 Habitually..quoting figures which you know to be as wilfully one-sided as a statement of any complicated account that should be all Creditor side and no Debtor, or all Debtor side and no Creditor. 1916 Jrnl. Amer. Bankers Assoc. Aug. 116/1 When we deal with the creditor side of the account, we will find that a certain portion of the bank's funds is always invested. 1999 R. Ruggles in N. D. Ruggles & R. Ruggles National Accounting & Econ. Policy vi. 136 This system was fully articulated in that each accounting entry appeared twice—once on the debtor side and once on the creditor side. Derivatives ˈcreditorship n. ΚΠ 1648 J. Owen Salus Electorum iii. vii. 144 Any one may without any wrong, goe off from the right of supreame Dominion or Creditorship, but the Lord cannot omit the Act of punishment. 1797 H. T. Colebrooke tr. J. Tarkapañcānana Digest Hindu Law I. i. §ii. 11 Creditorship and debtorship are distinguished by some peculiarities. 1868 Putnam's Mag. Apr. 496/2 He had half a mind to go to Europe, and so spare her the sight of his creditorship. 1910 Amer. Rev. of Reviews July 128/2 Such mysteries are cleared up as the means whereby the owner of a convertible bond has his choice of creditorship or partnership. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 3 Sept. 3 There are so many options available to the Revenue but, given the advantage afforded by its preferential creditorship, it can go straight to the hard end of the scale. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1435
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