Examples of debtor in a Sentence
The debtor agrees to pay the debt over a three-year period.
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Poverty Hollow was a debtors’ work farm and is now, because time has a sense of humor, the site of some of the town’s most McMansion-y developments.
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Clare Beams, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
Information about the overdue debt includes the debtor's taxpayer identification number.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
In Netflix’s hit Korean drama Squid Game, 456 desperate debtors competed to get rich — and all but one of them died trying.
—EW.com, 20 Nov. 2023
Filing for bankruptcy triggers an automatic pause on efforts to collect from the debtor.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2024
Targeting for-profit colleges and lenders, Chopra said he was troubled by an increasingly corporate higher-education system that was turning millions of students into debtors.
—Noam Levey, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
However, a debtor may then claim an exemption for property which is protected by either the Bankruptcy Code or the law of the state where the debtor is resident at the commencement of the bankruptcy case.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
Epner also noted that bankruptcy requires a debtor to be honest at the risk of criminal punishment.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2024
The drug ring's muscle, Luis Arturo Magana-Ramirez, who lived in Fife, Washington, often chatted about plans to abduct, harm or kill debtors as agents monitored the calls or texts, according to Magana-Ramirez's plea agreement.
—Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024
Clare Beams, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
Information about the overdue debt includes the debtor's taxpayer identification number.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
In Netflix’s hit Korean drama Squid Game, 456 desperate debtors competed to get rich — and all but one of them died trying.
—EW.com, 20 Nov. 2023
Filing for bankruptcy triggers an automatic pause on efforts to collect from the debtor.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2024
Targeting for-profit colleges and lenders, Chopra said he was troubled by an increasingly corporate higher-education system that was turning millions of students into debtors.
—Noam Levey, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
However, a debtor may then claim an exemption for property which is protected by either the Bankruptcy Code or the law of the state where the debtor is resident at the commencement of the bankruptcy case.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
Epner also noted that bankruptcy requires a debtor to be honest at the risk of criminal punishment.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2024
The drug ring's muscle, Luis Arturo Magana-Ramirez, who lived in Fife, Washington, often chatted about plans to abduct, harm or kill debtors as agents monitored the calls or texts, according to Magana-Ramirez's plea agreement.
—Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024
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“Debtor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/debtor. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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