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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
payee
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anyone could pay any cheque into their account provided the original payee had signed the back.
▪ Cheques requiring endorsement Endorsement consists of the signature of the payee on the back of the cheque.
▪ Draw a specimen cheque, complete it and name the payee, drawer and drawee. 8.
▪ Just complete a single form with your payee details at any Birmingham Midshires branch.
▪ The hotel must be named as the payee. 5.
▪ Under that system, the Eurocheque is free of charge to its payee, the costs being borne by the drawer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Payee

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
payee

1758, from pay (v.) + -ee.

Wiktionary
payee

n. One to whom money is paid.

WordNet
payee

n. a person 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.