Word Meanings - PAYEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to PAYEE)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• NAMELESSLY
  In a nameless manner.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• NAMABLE
  Capable of being named.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
• UNDERTAPSTER
  Assistant to a tapster.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• TEN-POUNDER
  A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.