Payable
['peɪəb(ə)l] or ['peəbl]
Definition
(a.) That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due.
(a.) That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.
(a.) Matured; now due.
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Examples
- The Department of Public Works requires that you should have five inspectors to look after this work, and that their salary shall be $5 per day, payable at the end of each week. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But allowing the colony security to be perfectly good, ?100, payable fifteen years hence, for example, in a country where interest is at six per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Before the 13th of the present king, the following were the duties payable upon the importation of the different sorts of grain: Grain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This third bill was made payable to the order of C, who, as soon as it was accepted, discounted it in the same manner with some banker in London. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It would, after such an alteration, be payable with the same quantity of gold as before, but with very different quantities of silver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Hundreds of boys were rushing in paying checks, all checks being payable to Belden & Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You shall get me a good bill at four months, made payable at a banking-house, for the other twenty! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- As the tax is made payable in money, so the valuation of the land is expressed in money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The trader A in Edinburgh, we shall suppose, draws a bill upon B in London, payable two months after date. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I'll make it payable the day after to-morrow,' said the little man, with a look towards Mr. Wardle; 'and we can get the lady away, meanwhile. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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