payable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English pay

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English payable

From pay + -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪəbl̩/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: pay‧able

Adjective

payable (comparative more payable, superlative most payable)

1. Due to be paid.

   Is value-added tax payable on planning application fees?

2. Able to be paid.
3. Of a mine etc.: capable of yielding profit; profitable.

Derived terms

• account payable
• accounts payable
• bills payable
• due and payable
• note payable
• payableness
• prepayable
• unpayable

Translations

3. Of a mine etc.: capable of yielding profit; profitable.

• Bulgarian: рентабилен (bg) (rentabilen)
• Esperanto: pagenda (eo)
• German: rentabel (de)

Noun

payable (countable and uncountable, plural payables)

2. (in the plural) Debts owed by a business; liabilities.

   Antonym: receivable

3. (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.

Related terms

• payability
• payably

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adjective

payable (plural payables)

1. payable

Further reading

• “payable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012