Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes a deposit; specifically, one who deposits money in a bank.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes a deposit, especially of money in a bank; -- the correlative of depository.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who makes a
deposit , especially a deposit ofmoney in abank
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution
Etymologies
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Examples
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By law, the depositor is the one responsible for any deposits he makes, so unfortunately you're stuck with the bill.
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For example, a big bank has been required to keep a higher level of cash reserves than a small bank, although the risk to the depositor is obviously in the other direction.
Different Drummers 1991
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A gratuitous deposit for the sole benefit of the depositor is a much stronger case for the denial of these remedies to the depositary; yet we have a decision by the full court, in which Lord Ellenborough also took part, that a depositary has case, the reasoning implying that a fortiori a borrower would have trespass.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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The Treasury also seemed to create a potential loophole in regard to the Vickers recommendation that ordinary depositors should be first in the queue to get their money if a bank were to go bust, a so-called "depositor preference" rule.
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So, our depositor is our best one in our business.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
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He takes the bowl of batter into a machine called the depositor, which uses a little telescoping rod to cut and plunge rounds of the stuff into two side-by-side deep fryers filled with bubbling oil.
unknown title 2009
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By law, the depositor is the one responsible for any deposits he makes, so unfortunately you're stuck with the bill.
Consumerist 2009
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He takes the bowl of batter into a machine called the depositor, which uses a little telescoping rod to cut and plunge rounds of the stuff into two side-by-side deep fryers filled with bubbling oil.
unknown title 2009
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By law, the depositor is the one responsible for any deposits he makes, so unfortunately you're stuck with the bill.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
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Notice that the note of the depositor (see #7 above) and the note of the borrower both said exactly the same thing (except the names of the "depositor" is changed) and both could be used in exactly the same way -- to buy goods and services.
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