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: that may, can, or must be paid
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Examples of payable in a Sentence
She charges her patients $3,000, payable in installments.
keep the bills payable separate from the receipts
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This represents an increase from the previous year's net investment income of $0.9 million.
Operating expenses for the year totaled $13.7 million, including $5.6 million in asset management fees payable to the company's advisor, TriLinc Advisors LLC.
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Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2025
One way to do a tax-free rollover is to take a distribution from an IRA or 401(k), usually in the form of a check payable to the account owner, and deposit the money in another retirement account within 60 days.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
In both cases, make sure your 401(k) provider makes the check payable to the provider and sends it directly to them, rather than to you.
—CBS News, 11 Mar. 2025
Those increases apply to future monthly checks, as well as retroactive benefits payable since January 2024.
—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 16 Feb. 2025
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Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2025
One way to do a tax-free rollover is to take a distribution from an IRA or 401(k), usually in the form of a check payable to the account owner, and deposit the money in another retirement account within 60 days.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
In both cases, make sure your 401(k) provider makes the check payable to the provider and sends it directly to them, rather than to you.
—CBS News, 11 Mar. 2025
Those increases apply to future monthly checks, as well as retroactive benefits payable since January 2024.
—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 16 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for payable
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“Payable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/payable. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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payable
adjective
pay·able
ˈpā-ə-bəl 
: that may, can, or must be paid
accounts payable
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