as in unpaid
not yet paid
keep the bills payable separate from the receipts
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Recent Examples of payable
The legal filing alleges that from 2018 to 2025, the brothers enriched themselves by falsely inflating invoices for accounts receivable and payable, falsifying financial statements and hiding substantial liabilities from lenders, among other practices.
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Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
During a records review, detectives spotted a hurricane disaster relief insurance payment that included a management fee payable to Curtis, 38, of Pompano Beach.
—Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
With payments of settlements and legal fees, except in clear physical injury cases, most defendants do duplicate reporting, so that a check payable jointly to plaintiff and lawyer will be 100% reported to the plaintiff, and 100% reported to the lawyer.
—Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Nonprobate assets are usually life insurance, retirement accounts, payable-on-death accounts, transfer on death accounts, joint property with rights of survivorship, annuities and assets in certain trusts.
—Virginia Hammerle, Dallas Morning News, 18 Jan. 2026
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Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
During a records review, detectives spotted a hurricane disaster relief insurance payment that included a management fee payable to Curtis, 38, of Pompano Beach.
—Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
With payments of settlements and legal fees, except in clear physical injury cases, most defendants do duplicate reporting, so that a check payable jointly to plaintiff and lawyer will be 100% reported to the plaintiff, and 100% reported to the lawyer.
—Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Nonprobate assets are usually life insurance, retirement accounts, payable-on-death accounts, transfer on death accounts, joint property with rights of survivorship, annuities and assets in certain trusts.
—Virginia Hammerle, Dallas Morning News, 18 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for payable
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The education news outlet 74 previously reported that Kerr claimed in bankruptcy proceedings that AllHere owed her approximately $630,000 in unpaid commissions related to the LAUSD contract.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Most of these workers are unpaid volunteers who train for years to operate in difficult terrain, bad weather, and high-stakes uncertainty.—
Jayme Moye,
Outside,
27 Feb. 2026
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Attendees got to their feet as Seth Rogen delivered a short but extremely sweet speech about the late comedic icon, who posthumously won outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series for her work on The Studio.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
2 Mar. 2026
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Agents ran his fingerprints through Border Patrol databases and determined his true identity, as well as the outstanding Sacramento County warrant for the Elk Grove case.—
Nicole Buss,
Sacbee.com,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Payable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/payable. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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