creditor nation
noun[C]
ukus(alsocreditor country)ECONOMICS,POLITICS
acountrythatowesless to othercountriesthan othercountriesoweto it:
Asiais now aregionofcreditornations, notdebtors.
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debtor nation
Examplesofcreditor nation
creditor nation
The country is a net importer but it is also acreditornation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Acreditornationis usually a debtor nation.
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Today we are the greatest debtor nation in the world; formerly we were the greatestcreditornation.
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In this country we have had a century's experience of what being acreditornationinvolves.
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It was all very well when we were a largecreditornationand were earning money all over the world.
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It turned us, for one thing, into acreditornation.
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We are no longer, as we used to be, a greatcreditornation.
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We have to see what the reaction will be upon our debtors in those matters in which we are acreditornation.
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When we were the greatestcreditornationthere were no other really great manufacturing countries for us to compete with.
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We were to become acreditornation, an imperialistic power, exploiting the backward countries of the globe.
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