pay·er

(pā′ər) also pay·or (-ôr)

1. One that pays: a prompt payer of bills.

2. One named responsible for paying a bill or note.

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payer

(ˈpeɪə)

1. (Banking & Finance) a person who pays

2. (Banking & Finance) the person named in a commercial paper as responsible for its payment on redemption

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pay•er

(ˈpeɪ ər)

n.

1. a person who pays.

2. the person named in a bill or note who has to pay the holder.

[1325–75]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

payer - a person who pays money for something

remunerator

money dealer, money handler - a person who receives or invests or pays out money

drawee - the person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment

paymaster - a person in charge of paying wages

taxpayer - someone who pays taxes

renter, tenant - someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else; "the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent"

tither - someone who pays tithes

Translations

maksaja

pagatore

betalare

payer

[ˈpeɪəʳ] N → pagador(a) m/f
slow payer; bad payer → moroso/a m/f

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payer

n → Zahler(in) m(f); late/slow payer → säumiger Zahler, säumige Zahlerin; to be a bad payer → eine schlechte Zahlungsmoral haben

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References in classic literature

The maxim that the consumer is the payer, is so much oftener true than the reverse of the proposition, that it is far more equitable that the duties on imports should go into a common stock, than that they should redound to the exclusive benefit of the importing States.

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As a payer of taxes he thought he should post himself on how things are run.

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And is the prisoner who is to be set at liberty a good payer?"

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And so saying he stood up and laid his hand on his sword, waiting to see what the Knight of the Grove would do, who in an equally calm voice said in reply, "Pledges don't distress a good payer; he who has succeeded in vanquishing you once when transformed, Sir Don Quixote, may fairly hope to subdue you in your own proper shape; but as it is not becoming for knights to perform their feats of arms in the dark, like highwaymen and bullies, let us wait till daylight, that the sun may behold our deeds; and the conditions of our combat shall be that the vanquished shall be at the victor's disposal, to do all that he may enjoin, provided the injunction be such as shall be becoming a knight."

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There are dark stories of his getting advance payers on the summit and then leaving them there to rot.

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I fully support this as can be assessed by the fact that the honest tax payers are being penalised by putting a long-term tax payer like my company, Lakhani Securities (Pvt) Limited, which has been a tax payer since 1984 and has suddenly been shown as an inactive tax payer as per the website of FBR.

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