Sentence examples for was debtor from inspiring English sources
noun
A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt
Like certain other countries to whom Austria was debtor, the United States notified the Reich after the Anschluss that it expected Berlin to assume Austria's foreign financial obligations.
On acceptance, the heir became owner if the deceased was owner, creditor if he was creditor, and debtor if he was debtor, even though the assets were insufficient to pay the debts.
When they fall, savers' pain is debtors' gain.
Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination.
The rhetoric of modern tiny-house living begins with the assertion that big houses, aside from being wasteful and environmentally noxious, are debtors' prisons.
In 2009, Quadrangle walked away from its investment and ownership of Maxim was inherited by six private equity firms who were debtors on the deal.
As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.
The country's most prominent "support group" for these shoppers is Debtors Anonymous.
Robert Kuttner's latest book is Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility.
Robert Kuttner's new book is Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility.
His latest book is Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity vs. Possibility.
