Definitions for payable

• Definition
• Anagrams (128)

payable pay·a·ble

Spelling: [pey-uh-buh l]

IPA: /ˈpeɪ ə bəl/

Payable is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in payable (aabelpy).

Definitions for payable

noun

1. an amount, bill, etc., that is to be paid.
2. payables, the accounts payable of a business:

adjective

1. to be paid; due:
2. capable of being or liable to be paid.
3. profitable.
4. Law. imposing an immediate obligation on the debtor.

Origin of payable

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at pay¹, -able

Examples for payable

Them checks was payable to "Bearer," you remember, so I give 'em to him.

It was his own demand note, payable to John Starkweather and endorsed by him to Mirabelle.

Sir Francis answered that debts won by dead men were not payable.

A non-negotiable note is payable to a particular person only.

This dividend was payable in capital stock and was equal to 30 per cent.

The tax was light, but payable in money, of which there was little or none.

That the subscription be two shillings a term, payable in advance.

Endorse this cheque 'Jane Meredith' and make it payable to me personally.

He knew that in that case he would not wish to pay the debt in the only way in which it would be payable.

This work is sold to subscribers only, payable on delivery of each volume.