payable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
payable (comparative more payable, superlative most payable)
- Due to be paid.
- Is value-added tax payable on planning application fees?
- Able to be paid.
- Of a mine etc.: capable of yielding profit; profitable.
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Translations[edit]
3. Of a mine etc.: capable of yielding profit; profitable.
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Noun[edit]
payable (countable and uncountable, plural payables)
- (in the plural) Debts owed by a business; liabilities.
- Antonym: receivable
- (sometimes postpositive) A thing that may be paid.
- 2003, Richard Stone, Contract Law Q and A 2003-2004[1]:
- […] money paid under it is to be returned, and money payable shall cease to be so.
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Adjective[edit]
payable (plural payables)
Further reading[edit]
- “payable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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