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Answer for the clue "Draft recipient ", 5 letters:
payee

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Word definitions for payee in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Payee \Pay*ee"\, n. The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange , under Bill .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One to whom money is paid.

Usage examples of payee.

We, who knew Payee, felt reasonably confident of his ability to handle even so redoubtable a pugilist as Donnelly, and we gathered together a little squad of our friends to see fair play.

The Bill would need to be issued early in May and payable in late May or early June, and it would have to be transferable, since the identity of the French payee in London might not be known until later, and in any case, for obvious reasons, would need to be kept secret.

Queen of the Underhill, any contract awarding the payee rights to a human in return for services rendered or in case of default is classified as a blood bargain and is legally unenforcable.

This author seemed only to exist as the payee on checks that had been cashed through an account belonging to the administrator of Safe Harbor, a social services facility in Sault Ste.

There were no canceled checks in the statement, but the printout identified each payee, and they were mostly for rent and household expenses.

Extraordinarily, the payee only had 30,000 francs on him which were still missing.

From the start there were problems with this type of money, particularly the smaller denominations, such as squirrels, which were always biting the payee and scampering away.

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.

He would then present Special Branch with the relevant cheque numbers and invite them to supply the names of the payees from the counter foils in the cheque books.