Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Requiring payment on a certain date; due.
- adjective Requiring payment to a particular person or entity.
- adjective Capable of producing profit.
- noun A debt that is owed to a creditor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That can be paid, or is to be paid; capable of being paid.
- To be paid; due: as, bills payable; homage or allegiance payable to the sovereign.
- Profitable; likely to be profitable or to pay: as, payable rock, gravel, quartz, etc., meaning yielding or likely to yield gold; a payable enterprise, one yielding or likely to yield profit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due.
- adjective That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.
- adjective Matured; now due.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun plural Debts owed by a business;
liabilities . - noun A thing that may be paid.
- adjective That which is to be
paid . - adjective Able to be paid.
- adjective Of a mine etc.: capable of yielding profit;
profitable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a liability account showing how much is owed for goods and services purchased on credit
- adjective subject to or requiring payment especially as specified
Etymologies
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Examples
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2,000 0.58 1,160 Total assets $2,600 $1,544 Accounts payable$ $ 400 0.66 $ 264 Notes payable
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I had a letter of credit in my possession for the sum of five thousand rupees, payable from the public treasuries of Lodiana or Delhi; and the Cabool merchants did not hesitate to accept it. 41
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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In return, Sarwar Khan was given two hundis that served as money orders, one for Rs. 85,000 payable at the Ludiana treasury, and another for Rs. 15,000 payable from the Peshawar treasury. 107
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Social Security retirement benefits remain payable to expatriates who live any place except Cuba, Cambodia, North Korea, Vietnam, and certain parts of the former Soviet Union.
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Social Security retirement benefits remain payable to expatriates who live any place except Cuba, Cambodia, North Korea, Vietnam, and certain parts of the former Soviet Union.
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How the gains are determined in each country differs, and the amount payable is different as well.
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How the gains are determined in each country differs, and the amount payable is different as well.
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How the gains are determined in each country differs, and the amount payable is different as well.
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Receivers of insolvent national banks and other financial institutions appointed by the Comptroller of the Currency with salaries payable from the funds of insolvent institutions, and the employees of such receivers.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9668 1945
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Actually, the number of claims paid or payable is not yet large.
hugovk commented on the word payable
payable, n. usually plural
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, January 2015:
April 18, 2015