payee
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3.9
- noun
- /peɪˈiː/
- Specialized
:
beneficiario
- The school requires a form to be filled out naming the payee for any scholarship funds.
- representative payee
- payer and payee
- payee on the check
Examples
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We logged in to Bluebird, and I filled in the name of the payee.
Blog text (8) -
On Monday, she shared a system that now performs payee verification for the millions of employees processed by Intuit's systems.
Blog text (2) -
Now, on one, the payee is blank.
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If the payee does have such an account, 1-day electronic transactions are typically done.
Blog text (10) -
The biggest downside for us is that Wepay is quite specific about only allowing payees who are U.S. citizens.
Blog text (18) -
They're made out to a P105 thousand different payees, many of whom I recognize from the direct costs in the budget.
Fiction book (1999) -
The Social Security Administration may have named the caregiver or someone else as a representative payee to manage benefits, and if there are no other assets, this should make guardianship for financial decisions unnecessary.
Academic text (2018) -
The landlord sent the rent payment to the new payee listed on the lease.
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When you fill out a cheque, be sure to write the name of the payee clearly.
Synonyms
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6.2
A person or group that officially receives something such as money, rights, property
How Entitled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Payee comes from the verb pay plus the ending -ee, which shows 'the one who receives'. Like employee ('the one who is employed'), payee means 'the one who is paid', so it is the person or organization who gets the money.