'debtors' is a perfectly acceptable word in written English.
You can use 'debtors' to refer to people or organizations who owe money to someone or something else. For example, "The bank was struggling to track down their debtors in order to collect the overdue payments."
Five years on, O'Donnell has joined a stream of credit crunch debtors crossing the Irish Sea – or the Northern Irish border – to go bust in the UK, which is a far friendlier place for those drowning in debt.
The creditors have a sense of victimhood that mirrors that of the debtors.
Legislation dating back to the reign of King Henry II – preventing removal of debtors' goods from beyond their native county – will shortly disappear from the UK's lawbooks.
Perhaps you non-teacher teachers can create a new generation of fat, fundamentalist, obedient, well-informed, unemployed long-term debtors.
But what you can't pretend is that if Greece walked away from its debtors tomorrow it wouldn't have to pay for its banks.
What is striking is that everyone in the EU has lost faith in the project: both creditors and debtors, and eurozone countries, would-be members and "opt-outs".
Other debtors, seeing this victory, will no doubt want the same.
Among the first prominent debtors to head to the UK was property developer John Fleming who, with his construction firm, owed €1bn to the banks.
All student debtors deserve a jubilee.
Much of the blame should also go to national governments that decide how much money should be lent to crippled debtors and under what conditions.
Since this will involve liquidating debtors, including many small firms, it is unpopular with politicians, who will resist any money that comes with strings attached.
