as in unpaid
not yet paid
keep the bills payable separate from the receipts
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Recent Examples of payable
From this Trump has demanded $20 billion, payable to him personally.
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
The new dividend is payable for the first time on July 25, 2025, to common stockholders of record at the close of business on July 3, 2025.
—Dividend Channel, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
The checks were payable to Quintana’s spouse and totaled $67,500.
—Jason Green, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025
TODs, also known as payable on death (POD) accounts, also are allowed in real estate deeds in many states.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
The new dividend is payable for the first time on July 25, 2025, to common stockholders of record at the close of business on July 3, 2025.
—Dividend Channel, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
The checks were payable to Quintana’s spouse and totaled $67,500.
—Jason Green, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025
TODs, also known as payable on death (POD) accounts, also are allowed in real estate deeds in many states.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for payable
Adjective
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Two months earlier, in March 2024, Just for Laughs filed for bankruptcy after owing millions in unpaid bills to hotels, venues and production companies.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
5 May 2025
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If so, that could be good news for human workers: many of the household robots will be replacing unpaid work that people do for themselves, rather than paid work by employees.—
John Koetsier,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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The Wall Street investment bank estimated that Berkshire’s T-bill position has more than doubled over the past year, adding that the $314 billion stake as of the end of March accounted for 5% of all outstanding short-term government bills.—
Yun Li,
CNBC,
11 May 2025
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Like every successful side in these early years of the World Cup, Uruguay 1950 had an outstanding centre-half in Varela, who was physically dominant and also a key attacking weapon.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
11 May 2025
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“Payable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/payable. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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