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pay·ee

 (pā-ē′)
n.
One to whom money is paid.
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payee

(peɪˈiː)
n
1. (Banking & Finance) the person to whom a cheque, money order, etc, is made out
2. (Banking & Finance) a person to whom money is paid or due
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pay•ee

(peɪˈi)

n.
a person to whom a check, money, etc., is payable.
[1750–60]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.payee - a person to whom money is paid
recipient, receiver - a person who receives something
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Translations
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adresátpříjemcevěřitel
modtager
rendelvényes
móttakandi greiîslu

payee

[peɪˈiː] Nportador(a) m/f, tenedor(a) m/f; (on cheque) → beneficiario/a m/f
"account payee only" (on cheque) → cuenta f nominal
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

payee

[ˌpeɪˈiː] nbénéficiaire mfpay envelope n (US)enveloppe f de paiepay increase naugmentation f de salaire
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

payee

nZahlungsempfänger(in) m(f)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

payee

[pe/ɛ7ˈiː] nbeneficiario/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

pay

(pei) past tense, past participle paid verb
1. to give (money) to (someone) in exchange for goods, services etc. He paid $5 for the book.
2. to return (money that is owed). It's time you paid your debts.
3. to suffer punishment (for). You'll pay for that remark!
4. to be useful or profitable (to). Crime doesn't pay.
5. to give (attention, homage, respect etc). Pay attention!; to pay one's respects.
noun
money given or received for work etc; wages. How much pay do you get?
ˈpayable adjective
which may be or must be paid. The account is payable at the end of the month.
payˈee noun
a person to whom money is (to be) paid.
ˈpayment noun
1. money etc paid. The TV can be paid for in ten weekly payments.
2. the act of paying. He gave me a book in payment for my kindness.
ˈpay-packet noun
an envelope containing a person's wages. The manager handed out the pay-packets.
ˈpay-roll noun
1. a list of all the workers in a factory etc. We have 450 people on the pay-roll.
2. the total amount of money to be paid to all the workers. The thieves stole the pay-roll.
pay back
1. to give back (to someone something that one has borrowed). I'll pay you back as soon as I can.
2. to punish. I'll pay you back for that!
pay off
1. to pay in full and discharge (workers) because they are no longer needed. Hundreds of steel-workers have been paid off.
2. to have good results. His hard work paid off.
pay up
to give (money) to someone, eg in order to pay a debt. You have three days to pay up (= You must pay up within three days).
put paid to
to prevent a person from doing (something he planned or wanted to do). The rain put paid to our visit to the zoo.
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References in periodicals archive ?
The test is whether the payee employed such diligence as a prudent man exercises in his own affairs.
The "confirmation of payee" initiative should make it easier for people sending payments to make sure they are going to the right recipient.
The PSR had previously suggested the possibility of giving a general direction to banks and payment service providers to implement confirmation of payee by July 1 this year - but it has revised its proposals following feedback which included concerns over difficulties meeting proposed deadlines.
The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is proposing that the UK's six biggest banking groups, which are involved in around 90% of bank transfers, fully put the "confirmation of payee" measures in place by March 31, 2020.
The audit drew a sample of 13 cheques amounting to Rs9.180m to reconcile the name of payees from the payee register of the office of the treasury officer Karachi and it was revealed that all the payees' names were different in the payee register from the name of payee noted in cash book/chequebook counterfoils.
Local currency cheques are cleared after transaction date plus one day (T+1 cycle), meaning funds will be available to the payee one day after the cheque is presented by the paying bank.
The firm said that the facility would allow customers to transfer funds from one POSB account to another, which can be either self-payee or third-party payee. Customers can also open and close recurring deposit accounts as well as term deposits (TD) accounts.
If you have a loved one who cannot manage their finances, you may be able to become a representative payee. We thoroughly investigate people who apply to be representative payees to protect the interests of Social Security beneficiaries, because a representative payee receives the beneficiary's payments and is given the authority to use them on the beneficiary's behalf.
31.<br />However, if you are the payee spouse, then you might not want to make any support agreement until after Dec.
The recent case of Grove Developments Limited v S&T (UK) Limited [2018] EWHC 123 (TCC) has potentially put a large hole in the practice of "smash and grab" adjudications, whereby the payee under a construction contract is able to obtain the entire amount of their application as a result of the paying party's failure to issue payment or pay less notices, irrespective of whether the claim is right or wrong.
Think of it as a court order that directs and authorizes the plan administrator of a qualified retirement plan to present to the alternate payee the dollar amount or the percentage of a participant's qualified retirement plan account balance.