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Someone living in the future on money they haven't made yet.
means A person who owes money or something else of value to another party.
from From Latin 'debitor,' tied to 'debere' meaning 'to owe' — itself a contraction of 'de habere,' roughly 'to have from' someone else. The word moved through Old French 'detour/debteur' before landing in English, picking up that silent 'b' later as a nod back to its Latin root (English spelling fussily restoring letters Latin had, even when French had dropped them).
- origin
- Latin debere, to owe, keep owing
- legal flip
- debtor's prisons banned, shame didn't follow
- psychology
- owing money changes how you value time
- fun fact
- everyone with a mortgage qualifies instantly