1. Requiring payment on a certain date; due.
2. Requiring payment to a particular person or entity.
3. Capable of producing profit: a payable business venture.
A debt that is owed to a creditor: tried to balance inventory, payables, and receivables.
1. (often foll by on) to be paid: payable on the third of each month.
1. to be paid; due: a loan payable in 30 days.
2. capable of being or liable to be paid.
4. a bill that is to be paid.
Noun 1. payable - a liability account showing how much is owed for goods and services purchased on credit; "the problem was to match receivables and payables in the same currency"
due, outstanding, owed, owing, receivable, unpaid, unsettled.
Make the cheque payable to "ABC Ltd" → Libellez le chèque à l'ordre de "ABC Ltd"., Établissez le chèque à l'ordre de "ABC Ltd".
They gave us checks for them and charged a fixed price, payable in advance--five cents.
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.
A fortnight for the execution, and fifteen hundred crowns payable on delivery," replied the artisan.
They were bound to the service of the company for five years, at the rate of one hundred dollars a year, payable at the expiration of the term, and an annual equipment of clothing to the amount of forty dollars.
His will took no notice of my father or my mother; but he left to my sister (always supposed to be his favorite in the family) a most extraordin ary legacy of possible pin-money, in the shape of a contingent reversion to the sum of three thousand pounds, payable on the death of Lady Malkinshaw, provided I survived her.
He also acquainted them with the precise amount of the income guaranteed by the Duke of Thigsberry to Violetta Stetta of the Italian Opera, which it appeared was payable quarterly, and not half-yearly, as the public had been given to understand, and which was EXclusive, and not INclusive (as had been monstrously stated,) of jewellery, perfumery, hair-powder for five footmen, and two daily changes of kid-gloves for a page.
Notwithstanding the amount of his "bills payable," Mr.
On the floor were fragments of paper, which were afterwards put together, and found to be the remains of a check for a large amount, payable to Lady Ruth, and signed by Wingrave.