People who are owed

Usage examples of creditors.

First and foremost, it would demonstrate to your creditors that you are going to be consul beyond any doubt.

That would mean your creditors would be more willing to carry your debts beyond your praetorship if necessary.

Should that happen, I would think your creditors will grow very restless indeed.

Victory would tell my creditors I will be praetor, and I will be senior consul.

Though compound interest is ghastly and ought to be outlawed, it does have one advantage: creditors charging compound interest stand to make huge profits when a debt is paid, even if only in part.

The borrowing interest rate was low, rents were low, inflation was high, and creditors were in no hurry to call in debts.

Both Crassus and Atticus were forced to flee their creditors, though Atticus managed to take his own personal fortune with him, and therefore had the wherewithal to live extremely comfortably while in exile.

Lucius Piso, now urban praetor, frowned direfully at the little group of creditors and postponed a decision until he had looked carefully through every one of the huge bundle of papers presented to him.

You get the province you wanted, and your more dubious creditors petition your cousin.

The specter of debt had vanished when he came home from Further Spain with enough in his share to allow a settlement with his creditors which absolved him from future ruin.

While he struggled with these mortifications, his wants grew more and more importunate, and his creditors became clamorous.

Thus determined, he packed up his necessaries in a portmanteau, attempted to amuse his creditors with promises of speedy payment, and, venturing to come forth in the dark, took a place in the Canterbury stage-coach, after having converted his superfluities into ready money.

The haughty housekeeper who had replaced her had been the first to quit right after the creditors began showing up at the door.

We sat in the dark while the creditors pounded on the door and called insults through the shuttered window.

The New Year would soon be upon him, bringing with it the annual plague of creditors swarming about his house.