What's the difference between debtor and lender?

Debtor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This sends the dangerous message that the citizens of the debtor countries need to suffer badly to signal their contrition.
  • (2) Instead, they enact bankruptcy laws to provide the ground rules for creditor-debtor bargaining, thereby promoting efficiency and fairness.
  • (3) The Irish, who have ruined themselves to bail out their banks, would not take kindly to a country in an analogous situation being given a card to get out of debtors' jail for free.
  • (4) The magic of inflation, for debtors, is that it devalues the debt and makes it easier to service.
  • (5) Talk of debtors and creditors simply “working together” ignores existing UN agreements, dating back to 2002, that clearly recognise the joint responsibility of both the lender and borrower.
  • (6) From his perspective, I must have remained my grandparents’ debtor in perpetuity.
  • (7) Creditor nations were free to hoard as they liked, placing the burden of action on debtor nations who had very little choice but to act in ways that tended to depress their domestic economies.
  • (8) This misallocation of responsibilities is dangerous for Britain's private debtors, so please give the determination of the full spectrum of rates your full attention.
  • (9) Surplus countries bought assets in debtor countries; the money churning through New York and London kept the dollar and the pound strong, made imports cheaper and allowed policymakers to keep interest rates low.
  • (10) Looks like Soros is still speaking now - here are a couple more newsflashes: • FUND MANAGER GEORGE SOROS SAYS MINIMAL ACTION BY GERMANY WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO HELP DEBTOR EURO-ZONE NATIONS RECOVER • SOROS SAYS FUNDAMENTAL FLAWED ASSUMPTION IN EUROPE CRISIS IS THAT GOVERNMENTS ARE 'RISKLESS' He has also warned that there is a real danger that the euro crisis will destroy the European Union....
  • (11) Instead of brokering such an agreement, which might involve creditor countries such as Germany and China agreeing to boost their demand, instead of relying solely on cutbacks in debtor countries to narrow the divide, the IMF has repeatedly been dragged into rubber-stamping botched bailouts and harsh austerity policies when tackling the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.
  • (12) He suggested the Bank of England ought to return interest rates to "normal levels, say 3% to 5%", so that society treated "the saver as fairly as it treats the debtor".
  • (13) To be eligible for a DRO, debtors must have debts of less than £15,000 and be on a low income.
  • (14) The Westlife singer has followed dozens of other Irish debtors who have sought to use Britain's more liberal bankruptcy laws to wipe out their debts.
  • (15) There is no reason why a constitutional solution that involves debt limitation should not command a large measure of public acceptance, especially in debtor countries, which have experienced the political and economic damage caused by previous profligate governments.
  • (16) Contagion to the government bonds of the next weakest eurozone debtor nation would probably not be immediate, but any new crisis in a weak economy could potentially trigger aggressive speculation.
  • (17) His solution was an ingenious system for persuading the creditor nations to spend their surplus money back into the economies of the debtor nations.
  • (18) Financial sector: amendments on insolvency laws will aim to get debtors to pay up loans, while consultants will help on how to deal with bad loans.
  • (19) And the head of the FBI implied police violence would go down if we could all admit, Avenue Q style , that “everyone’s a little bit racist.” In Ferguson, citizens must sue to stop being subjected to illegal debtors prisons .
  • (20) To borrow a cliche, creditors, debtors and politicians will all need to compromise more if they want to move this saga on to a more sustainable path.

Lender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
  • (2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (3) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
  • (4) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
  • (5) Data from a sample of completed property sales provided by mortgage lenders, representing about 65%-70% of homes bought with mortgages.
  • (6) That’s precisely the point made by Jubilee Debt Campaign: the reckless lenders that poured speculative cash into the country in the runup to the crisis escaped largely unscathed (though they were forced to accept some reduction in the face value of their bonds – known as a haircut – in the 2012 restructuring that accompanied Greece’s second emergency bailout).
  • (7) A member of the P2PFA ThinCats ThinCats logo Date launched January 2011 Quoted returns Lenders can earn "between 6% and 13%".
  • (8) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
  • (9) Mortgage lenders are failing to follow rules designed to help people avoid repossession, according to a damning report published today.
  • (10) "Building societies and other mutual lenders continue to play a dominant role in supporting members of the UK public looking to buy a new home," said Paul Broadhead, head of mortgage policy at the BSA.
  • (11) Rival lender Nationwide reported a fall in house prices of 0.2% in September , the first decrease in 17 months.
  • (12) It means that Ireland will make a clean exit from its €85bn financial assistance programme, which ends on 15th Decembe r. It has hit the targets set by its troika of lenders, and Kenny's government must be confident that it can walk alone.
  • (13) • MPs heard that payday lenders are targeting young children with their TV adverts.
  • (14) The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) estimates that there remain 719,000 households in the UK with mortgages that are worth more than the property.
  • (15) Later this week the Financial Conduct Authority will outline how it intends to police payday lenders when it begins to regulate them in April 2014.
  • (16) The five major commercial banks saw around €2bn of deposits withdrawn by customers anxious that Greece was nearing the end of its credit line with lenders and about to go bust.
  • (17) The maximum amount being advertised is the maximum the lender will consider – it is not a guarantee you will be offered that percentage of the property price.
  • (18) Either way, Boulger points out that some of the standard variable rates charged by lenders are so good, you might not need a new deal at all.
  • (19) "While some lenders were MMR-compliant ahead of the official launch at the end of April, using May data to assess the impact of the new rules is perhaps premature," he said.
  • (20) The debut of the film – before an audience of business journalists, film critics and a smattering of Wonga customers – comes before a grilling by MPs in Westminster on Tuesday as calls grow for tighter curbs on payday lenders.