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creditors' meeting

 
 
noun [C] LAW

Definition

a meeting of the people or companies that are owed money by a bankrupt company, especially a meeting at which they vote on whether to accept the plan for dividing the assets that remain: Our proposal went out last Friday for a creditors' meeting on February 10.
(Definition of creditors' meeting noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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