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debtee en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /dɛˈtiː/

Etymology

From debt + -ee.

Meanings

1. One who is owed a debt; a creditor.
   • If a person indebted to another makes his creditor or debtee his executor , or if such a creditor obtains letters of administration to his debtor ; in these cases the law gives him a remedy for his debt by allowing him to retain so much as will pay himself 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
   • The debtee also relies on the debtor to be financially successful themselves to pay the instalments of the debt as necessary. 2022, Richard J. Britton, Romans and the Power of the Believer:

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