How to Use payee in a Sentence
payee
noun- The payee must endorse the back of the check.
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The payee’s name on the checks is not known to the man.
—cleveland, 30 Mar. 2022
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The payee line was made out to the US Treasury but had been scratched off and written in the name of the suspect.
—cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022
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A couple told police on April 19 that someone changed the amount and the payee on a check.
—Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2022
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Further review found that someone had intercepted the check and changed the name of the payee to a female and had cashed the check.
—Houston Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2020
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The city is listed as the payee for five nights at the Confidante Miami Beach for a total of about $1,400.
—Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
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In instances of checkwashing, the suspects come across a check, often lately stolen in the mail, and use chemicals to remove the amount and the name of the payee.
—Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 6 May 2022
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Someone may need a payee, but no one is willingly coming forward to serve in that role.
—Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2023
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Even so, Daniels isn’t the only alleged Trump payee prosecutors focused on in the case.
—Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
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So companies that tailor payment options to the diverse needs of their payees have an edge.
—First Horizon Bank, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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The aim was to trigger a bill or an audit when the IRS discovered the putative payee had not reported the income.
—Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
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Due to the disparity in tax rates that exist in these cases, this would have a negative effect on the payee.
—Sarah O'Brien, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2017
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The most common type of check fraud is what’s known as check washing, where a criminal steals the check from the mail and proceeds to change the payee’s name on the check and, additionally, the amount of money.
—Ken Sweet, Fortune, 13 June 2023
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Mazei then wrote her own name as payee of the transactions and deposited them in her personal accounts.
—Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2019
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Also, check washers can remove all the writing from your checks except for the signature, so just filling out the payee line won’t prevent fraud.
—Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
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The financial records the Committee seeks show only the name of the payer or the payee, the amount of the payment, and certain identifying information.
—Spencer S. Hsu, Houston Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
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Under existing law, anybody and his brother could apply to be your rep payee.
—Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2020
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The payee, who was not identified, pleaded guilty in 2021 to charges related to the mistreatment of Miracle One’s clients in Albany, a spokeswoman said.
—Henri Hollis, ajc, 14 Sep. 2022
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But like private insurance, when the employees turn into the payee, the other side of the transaction can get awfully stingy.
—Kyle Whitmire, al, 6 Aug. 2020
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Thucydides hinted at it disapprovingly, Dickens scorned the payee more than the payer, Dostoyevsky viewed it as a transaction on the road to Hell.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
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According to court documents, Madden would generate checks for the phony purchase orders by putting tape over the payee line and put the company name on the tape.
—Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 19 Aug. 2017
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There are now more than a dozen payee businesses operating statewide.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2019
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Sign up for account alerts through your bank so that you're notified of every deposit, every cash withdrawal, any new payee, etc.
—Teresa Dixon Murray, cleveland.com, 11 Feb. 2018
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The site lets anyone search a database of every expenditure New York City has made this year by agency, contract number, payee name, purpose and amount.
—Eliot Van Buskirk, WIRED, 1 July 2010
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The new features, to be released this year, will include payee QR Codes, to enable payment for goods and services as well as transfers even when the consumer does not have access to the Internet at the time of the transaction.
—Angelica Mari, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
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Users who claim a refund on their taxes from the government must show a TDS certificate issued to the payee within 15 days from the due date of reporting the tax, the government has clarified.
—Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 24 June 2022
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Based on one person’s judgment call, arrangements are made to have the government’s check sent to a representative payee.
—Jeffrey Swanson, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2017
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Four days later, my mailbox held a thin cardboard flat-rate package with nothing inside but a startlingly realistic check with my name typed on the payee line.
—Matthew Kauffman, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2018
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McPhearson allegedly deposited them into an account that didn't belong to the payee listed on the checks.
—Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2022
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For-profit payee services businesses have existed here since the 1990s.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2019
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