forfeiter

English

Etymology

forfeit +‎ -er

Noun

forfeiter (plural forfeiters)

1. One who forfeits; (law, specifically) one who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.

Further reading

• “forfeiter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “forfeiter, n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.