PAYEE
What does "PAYEE" mean?
The person or party to whom money is paid or a payment is owed.
Meanings
- The person to whom a payment is made or a check, draft, or bill is written. Write the landlord's name in the payee line of the check.
Did you know?
- The '-ee' in 'payee' is the same receiving-end suffix as in employee, lessee, and addressee: it flags who an action is done to, not who does it.
Word origin
From the verb 'pay' (from Latin 'pacare', to appease or pacify, via Old French 'paier') plus the agent-receiving suffix '-ee', which marks the person on the receiving end of an action.
Remember it
PaymEnt Ends with this person: the payEE is where it lands.
A little poem
One name signs the check, and one receives-
money is just trust that someone leaves.
couplet
What it teaches
Every transaction has two ends; clarity about who receives prevents most quarrels about who owes.
Quick facts
What does PAYEE mean?
The person or party to whom money is paid or a payment is owed.
Is PAYEE a valid word?
Yes — PAYEE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PAYEE?
PAYEE has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does PAYEE come from?
From the verb 'pay' (from Latin 'pacare', to appease or pacify, via Old French 'paier') plus the agent-receiving suffix '-ee', which marks the person on the receiving end of an action.
What can PAYEE teach us?
Every transaction has two ends; clarity about who receives prevents most quarrels about who owes.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.