payer

noun

pay·​er ˈpā-ər 

variants or less commonly payor

ˈpā-ər  (ˌ)pā-ˈȯr 

: one that pays

especially : the person by whom a bill or note has been or should be paid

He is a prompt bill payer.

Examples of payer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

September is typically a rough patch for stocks, but adding a few dividend payers to your portfolio may help smooth the ride. — Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026

Nobody was careless; the authorization lived in the payer's portal, the sessions lived in the scheduler, and no system owned the job of noticing that one had ended while the other kept going. — Jp Montoya, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

The rest of American medicine is thousands of autonomous clinics on different records and different payers, with no one empowered to give the order. — John E. Harrison, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2026

Pediatric services disproportionately care for families on Medicaid, whose reimbursement rates rarely match affluent, private-payer-heavy markets. — Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing payer

• single-payer

Rhymes for payer

• gayer
• grayer
• greyer
• layer
• mayor
• nayar
• payor
• peyer
• player
• preyer
• sayer
• slayer

Legal Definition

payer

variant of payor