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Payable   /pˈeɪəbəl/   Listen
adjective
Payable  adj.  
1.
That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. "Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest."
2.
(Law)
(a)
That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.
(b)
Matured; now due.





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... show you the contrary, you silly wench," answered Mowbray—"Here is a banker's bill, payable to your own order, for the cash you lent me, and something over—don't let old Mick have the fingering, but let Bindloose manage it for you—he is the honester man between two ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
... that category; (2) to introduce into the Philippines all reforms necessary for correcting in an effective and absolute manner the evils which for so many years had oppressed the country, in political and administrative affairs; and (3) an indemnity of $800,000, payable at the following dates: A letter of credit of the Spanish Filipine Bank for $400,000 against the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hongkong was to be delivered to Senor Aguinaldo on the same day that he should leave Biak-va-Bato, where he had established ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead
... position. "Don't talk about that. It upsets me to anticipate. I can make out a check to-morrow payable to ...
— The Masquerader • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... gorgeous colors of the dresses were blended with the azure of a southern sky. No antique rendering of this subject remains. The spectators began to assemble at early dawn, for each wished to secure a good seat, after paying his entrance fee. This, not exceeding two oboloi, was payable to the builder or manager of the theatre. After the erection of stone theatres at Athens, this entrance fee was paid for the poorer classes by Government, and formed, indeed, one of the heaviest items of the budget. For not only at the Dionysian ceremonies, ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy
... money; and where do you think he carried us but to that place with the door?— whipped out a key, went in, and presently came back with the matter of ten pounds in gold and a cheque for the balance on Coutts's, drawn payable to bearer and signed with a name that I can't mention, though it's one of the points of my story, but it was a name at least very well known and often printed. The figure was stiff; but the signature was good for more ...
— Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


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