debtors
Those who owe
Debtors are people or entities that owe money to others.
The term appears most often in legal, financial, and accounting contexts: The company's debtors failed to pay on time.
A debtor owes; a creditor is owed.
In biblical and religious usage, debtors may owe moral or spiritual obligations: Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Legal status when insolvent
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
- garnishmentCourt-ordered debt collection
- lienClaim securing debt
judgment · collections · dunning · repossession · seizure · attachment · receivership · discharge
Legal or financial obligation
- arrearsOverdue financial obligations
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- principalChief school administrator
- interestAttention, stake, or fee
installment · payment · dues · deficit · shortfall · outstanding · owed · encumbrance
Unable to pay debts
- bankruptUnable to repay debts
- delinquentFailing in duty
- defaultingFailing to repay debt
- overduePast expected arrival
behind · arrears · underwater · overleveraged · upside-down · solvent · current
Preset standard option
- repayReturn money owed
- settleReach final terms
- dischargeRelease of substance outward
- restructureRearrange fundamental organization
consolidate · refinance · negotiate · liquidate · foreclose · garnish · collect · dun
Institution housing poor laborers
- indenturedContracted to serve
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- peonageDebt-based forced labor
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
bankruptcy
Legal status when insolvent
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
- garnishmentCourt-ordered debt collection
lien · judgment · collections · dunning · repossession · seizure · attachment · receivership · discharge
liability
Legal or financial obligation
- arrearsOverdue financial obligations
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- principalChief school administrator
interest · installment · payment · dues · deficit · shortfall · outstanding · owed · encumbrance
insolvent
Unable to pay debts
- bankruptUnable to repay debts
- delinquentFailing in duty
- defaultingFailing to repay debt
overdue · behind · arrears · underwater · overleveraged · upside-down · solvent · current
default
Preset standard option
restructure · consolidate · refinance · negotiate · liquidate · foreclose · garnish · collect · dun
workhouse
Institution housing poor laborers
- indenturedContracted to serve
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- peonageDebt-based forced labor
Dickensian · poorhouse · gaol
- litigation partiesparties, plaintiffs, defendants, litigants, petitioners
- debt collectiongarnishment, late payments, delinquent accounts, collection agencies, collection call
- early bankingmoney changers, moneylenders, moneylending, money lending, loans
- legal partiesassignee, assignor, creditor, beneficiary, trustee
- Bible moneymammon, tithe, alms, mite, shekel
- bankruptcybankruptcy, bankruptcy court, Chapter 11, Chapter 7, bankruptcy petition
debtorscreditors
Those owed payment
lenders · moneylenders · loan sharks · mortgagees · bondholders
- debtor's prisonJail for the bankrupt
- debtors' prisonJail for those owing money
- debtors prisonJail for those owing money