They foot the bill

Usage examples of payers.

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!