payable
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈpeɪəbl/
- Formal
:
pagadero
- US members make checks payable to PSA in US funds on a US bank for $12.50 each program.
- accounts payable
- checks payable
- fees payable
You make that check payable to that candidate or that group and I take that check.
- You make that check payable to that candidate or that group and I take that check.
Examples
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The invoice is for $300, payable within 30 days.
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129 EPA assessed a total penalty of $3,989,660 (payable to the Treasurer, United States of America).
Academic text (1998) -
- Three dollars a week, payable in advance.
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It's a fee, payable to me each month.
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This is a loan, payable in 12 months.
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The cost of the psychic profile was a hundred dollars in U.S. funds, payable in advance.
Fiction book (1992) -
Your fee will be 50,000, payable upon delivery.
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That'll be $25.50 a week, payable in advance.
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An entry fee of five dollars must accompany each entry; make checks payable to "Young Composers' Competition."
Academic text (1990) -
Most of these contractual dues were deferred for two years and made payable in four equal semi-annual installments.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
469
1.3
Owed and needing to be paid
83
3.9
Not yet paid and still owed
15
6.3
Able to be legally taken to pay a debt
Able to be recovered by asking the person who owes the money to pay
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.7
Money a company owes suppliers for goods or services bought on credit
- Specialized
Money a company owes for goods or services it has received but not paid for
How Payable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Payable is formed from pay and the ending -able, where -able means 'able to be'. Because pay originally meant to 'make peace' by giving money, payable literally means 'able to be paid', which is why it describes money that is due and must be paid.