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payee
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun payee has 1 sense
- payee(n = noun.person) Array - a person to whom money is paid; Array is a kind of receiver, recipient
Derived forms verb pay1, verb pay5
CIDE DICTIONARY
payee, 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. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
payee
accepter, acquirer, addressee, audience, auditor, beholder, consignee, getter, hearer, holder, listener, looker, obtainer, procurer, receiver, recipient, spectator, taker, trustee, viewer
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