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receivables
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
receivables
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The bank purchased $110 million in credit card receivables.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A prepayment of 75% against receivables of £670,000 more than met this amount.
▪ Another newish rule forces most of a card's receivables to be held by the issuing company, not its parent.
▪ Banks are issuing a stream of securities backed by mortgages, credit-card receivables and other assets stripped off their balance sheets.
▪ Olympic said it will use the additional line of credit to finance the daily purchase of auto receivables prior to securitization.
▪ The health-insurance holding concern said it will use proceeds from the two-year, adjustable-rate line to finance agents' receivables.
▪ These do not have the capital to carry large volumes of receivables.
▪ You have to learn to estimate capital expenditures, cash flow, and receivables.
Wiktionary
receivables

n. 1 (plural of receivable English) 2 All the debts etc. owed to a company by its debtors or customers.

WordNet
receivables

n. money that you currently expect to receive from notes or accounts

Wikipedia
Receivables

Receivables may refer to a company's claims to the future collection of cash, other assets, or services. These are frequently classified as:

  • Accounts receivable, receivables resulting from the sale of goods or services on account.
  • Notes receivable, represents claims for which formal instruments of credit are issued as evidence of debt, such as a promissory note. The credit instrument normally requires the debtor to pay interest and extends for time periods of 60–90 days or longer

Receivables may also refer to:

  • The Receivables Exchange, an online marketplace where businesses buy and sell their accounts receivable, through real-time auctions
  • Receivables turnover ratio, one of the accounting activity ratios, a financial ratio

Usage examples of "receivables".

Slowly she scrolled through the diskette, past stern memos to partners about collecting their receivables and crisp thank-you notes for Christmas gifts.