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depositor

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • CMU ARPABET: D AH0 P AA1 Z IH0 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A person who makes a deposit, especially a deposit of money in a bank.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: investor

Narrower terms: withdrawer

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h1 Proto-Indo-European *déh1 Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h2ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h2epó Proto-Indo-European *h2pó Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *tḱéyti Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-der. Proto-Italic *sinō Proto-Italic *pozinō Old Latin *poznō Latin pōnō Latin dēpōnō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin deposituslbor. English deposit English -or English depositor From deposit + -or.

Across languages

Translations

13 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: вложител (vložitel) — person
  • Chinese Mandarin: 儲戶 /储户 (chǔhù) — person
  • Finnish: tallettaja — person
  • French: dépositaire — person
  • Greek: καταθέτης (katathétis) — person
  • Ido: depozanto — person
  • Italian: depositante — person
  • Kazakh: салымшы (salymşy) — person
  • Kazakh: депозитор (depozitor) — person
  • Polish: deponent — person
  • Romanian: depozant — person
  • Romanian: depozantă — person
  • Swedish: insättare — person