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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
payer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
charge
▪ As a result, there are large bills to be paid - bills which are being passed on to ordinary community charge payers.
▪ The courts have shown themselves sympathetic in cases where the charge payer does not have the means to pay.
▪ It would also have meant higher administrative costs which would have had to have been borne by charge payers.
▪ Transitional Relief will apply to a minority of charge payers in Birmingham.
▪ Only 1.6 percent. of the expenditure was borne by community charge payers.
▪ Compulsory competitive tendering provides better services at lower cost to the charge payer in London.
▪ These are added burdens on the charge payer which are no fault of his own.
tax
▪ This means that unless you are a higher rate tax payer, there is nothing else for you to pay.
▪ Remember, they are poll tax payers, too, and the parks should not be closed to them.
▪ Benefit forms will be supplied on request to other council tax payers.
▪ These Sherlocks could stay at home and save the tax payers some money.
▪ Manchester s council-#tax payers still remain technically liable for any losses.
▪ How very lucky they are that, as poll tax payers, they do have lights.
▪ Schemes are available for tax payers to covenant their gifts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In the case of a disputed payment, the payer would have to show bank account records.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Benefit forms will be supplied on request to other council tax payers.
▪ Compulsory competitive tendering provides better services at lower cost to the charge payer in London.
▪ Instead, a loan is raised and its repayment, including interest, shared by future generations of local taxation payers.
▪ Low payers were public administration, wholesale distribution, metal manufacture and mechanical engineering.
▪ Manchester s council-tax payers still remain technically liable for any losses.
▪ Their refusal to curtail spending plans and to increase the burden on poll tax payers is expected.
▪ These are added burdens on the charge payer which are no fault of his own.
▪ These Sherlocks could stay at home and save the tax payers some money.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Payer

Payer \Pay"er\, n. One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
payer

"person who pays" (originally wages, late 14c., later taxes, early 15c.), from Old French paiere (13c.), agent noun from paier (see pay (v.)).

Wiktionary
payer

n. One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

WordNet
payer

n. a person who pays money for something [syn: remunerator]

Wikipedia
Payer

Payer may refer to:

  • Evariste Payer (1887–1963), Canadian professional hockey player
  • Helge Payer (born 1979), Austrian international footballer
  • Payer (party), a party who makes a payment
  • Serge Payer (born 1979), Canadian ice hockey player

Usage examples of "payer".

Je ne puis pas payer ma dette, et je ne veux plus rien demander a ton pere que je ruinerais.

Mais voici Mlle Perrot qui se pose en artiste, en professeur, il faut payer ses talents.

It was an ensemble piece: nine guest roles to be assumed by payers, three somewhat larger and more glamorous host roles to be assumed by payees like Miranda.

London, but presumably his channels are swifter than ours, and his payers in England will be ready and waiting for our payees whensoever they arrive.

Bills well in advance of the expiration of their usance, as this will give the payer more time to make arrangements to deliver the specie.

And any professional could tell you that it was a rare pleasure to ract with a payer who knew what he was doing.

Nevertheless, to many payers of supertax this war is simply an insane family squabble which ought to be stopped at all costs.

Hither came no payers of formal calls, no leavers of cards, no pests from the humdrum world to open their mouths and utter foolishness.

There are dark stories of his getting advance payers on the summit and then leaving them there to rot.

After the first euphoria, and when the financial loss had begun to bite, the burden of guilt on the paid-for victim became too great, and the resentment of the payers too intense, and they too began to feel guilt for their resentment, and could eventually hate the victim for love of whom they had beggared themselves.

In 1990, when tax payers were required to give the Social Security numbers for every dependent, seven million names disappeared!

The casting agent, which was a semiautonomous piece of software, had assembled a company of nine payers, enough to ract all the guest roles in First Class to Geneva, which was about intrigue among rich people on a train inoccupied France, and which was to ractives what The Mousetrap was to passive theatre.

Bridge payers, Qwilleran had reason to believe, ranked with athletes, sports fans, actors, sailors, and crapshooters as creatures of superstition.

We drove by the social club and the church, cruised through Mary Maggie's parking garage, cut over to Ace Payers, and ended with Ronald DeChooch's house in north Trenton.

Middle-aged poll tax payers had cheered alongside young people wearing ragged jeans and nose rings.