PAYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does payer mean? 

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

1. a person who pays money for something

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAYER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who pays money for something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

payer; remunerator

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

money dealer; money handler (a person who receives or invests or pays out money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "payer"):

drawee (the person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment)

paymaster (a person in charge of paying wages)

taxpayer (someone who pays taxes)

renter; tenant (someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else)

tither (someone who pays tithes)

Derivation:

pay (bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action)

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

pay (discharge or settle)

pay (do or give something to somebody in return)

 Context examples 

Telegraphic inquiries had been already made which showed that Marx knew nothing of his customer save that he was a good payer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Payment by a third-party payer in a sum equal to the amount expended by a health care provider or facility for health services rendered to an insured or program beneficiary.

(Insurance, Health, Reimbursement, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)