PAYABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does payable mean? 

• PAYABLE (noun)
  The noun PAYABLE has 1 sense:

1. a liability account showing how much is owed for goods and services purchased on credit

  Familiarity information: PAYABLE used as a noun is very rare.

• PAYABLE (adjective)
  The adjective PAYABLE has 1 sense:

1. subject to or requiring payment especially as specified

  Familiarity information: PAYABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAYABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A liability account showing how much is owed for goods and services purchased on credit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

account payable; payable

Context example:

the problem was to match receivables and payables in the same currency

Hypernyms ("payable" is a kind of...):

financial obligation; indebtedness; liability (an obligation to pay money to another party)

• PAYABLE (adjective)

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Meaning:

Subject to or requiring payment especially as specified

Synonyms:

collectable; collectible; payable

Context example:

a check payable to John Doe

Similar:

due (owed and payable immediately or on demand)

 Context examples 

That disadvantage is not diminished, when that pressure necessitates the drawing of stipendiary emoluments, before those emoluments are strictly due and payable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

—whipped out a key, went in, and presently came back with the matter of ten pounds in gold and a cheque for the balance on Coutts’s, drawn payable to bearer and signed with a name that I can’t mention, though it’s one of the points of my story, but it was a name at least very well known and often printed.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Under these circumstances, alike humiliating to endure, humiliating to contemplate, and humiliating to relate, I have discharged the pecuniary liability contracted at this establishment, by giving a note of hand, made payable fourteen days after date, at my residence, Pentonville, London.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)