noun
Other Word Forms
- nondepositor noun
Etymology
Origin of depositor
1555–65; < Late Latin, equivalent to Latin dēposi-, variant stem of dēpōnere ( depone ) + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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Uninsured depositors were made whole—no haircuts and no meaningful loss-sharing.
From Barron's
In 2010, there was a dispute between Iceland and the UK over whether Iceland should contribute to compensating UK depositors in the failed Icelandic banks.
From BBC
Taylor was already one of its largest depositors, and the owner of the five-story Taylor Building where the bank leases its headquarters.
Net interest revenue, or the spread earned between what it paid out to depositors and what it collected in interest from investments and loans, climbed 25% from the year prior to $3.17 billion.
The growth of the private credit market, in which investors rather than bank depositors fund loans, protects bank depositors and ultimately taxpayers by transferring credit risk to people ready and willing to bear it.
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