debtor

débiteur

Personne ou entreprise qui doit de l’argent à quelqu’un.

En anglais simple : A person or business that owes money to someone else.

• The debtor owes us money.
• Several debtors have missed their monthly payments.
• The bank offered the debtor more time to repay the loan.

Contraires : creditor

Expressions courantes : debtor and creditor, a debtor company, insolvent debtor

débiteur, redevable

Personne tenue de donner ou de payer quelque chose à une autre, ou de faire quelque chose pour elle.

En anglais simple : Someone who must give, pay, or do something for another person because of an obligation.

• I am your debtor for this kindness.
• The agreement required the debtor to provide three days of service.
• She considered herself a debtor to those who had protected her family.

Comment l'utiliser : a debtor to someone (He remained a debtor to everyone who had helped him.)

Synonymes : obligor

Expressions courantes : debtor to someone, a debtor’s obligation