PAYER
What does "PAYER" mean?
The person or party who pays or is responsible for making a payment.
Meanings
- The person who pays or who is to make a payment, especially the one who writes a check or settles a bill. The payer must sign and date the check in the bottom corner.
- An organization, such as an insurer or government program, that covers the cost of a service. The hospital bills several insurance payers for the same procedure. technical
Did you know?
- To 'pay' originally meant to pacify: it comes from Latin 'pacare', the same root as 'peace', because settling a debt was a way of appeasing the person owed.
Word origin
From the verb 'pay' (from Latin 'pacare', to appease, via Old French 'paier') plus the agent suffix '-er', which marks the one who performs the action.
Remember it
PAYER ends in -ER, the doer; the one who pays, not the one paid.
A little poem
The payer counts the coins out, one by one-
and buys a little peace when it is done.
couplet
What it teaches
Whoever holds the purse holds a quiet kind of power; spend it the way you would want to be spent on.
Quick facts
What does PAYER mean?
The person or party who pays or is responsible for making a payment.
Is PAYER a valid word?
Yes — PAYER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PAYER?
PAYER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does PAYER come from?
From the verb 'pay' (from Latin 'pacare', to appease, via Old French 'paier') plus the agent suffix '-er', which marks the one who performs the action.
What can PAYER teach us?
Whoever holds the purse holds a quiet kind of power; spend it the way you would want to be spent on.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.