name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
payer
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /ˈpeɪ.ɚ/
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rhymes with -eɪə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: P EY1 ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The company is the largest tax payer in the region.
- Health insurance depends on both the payer and the provider.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, finance
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a person who pays money for something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: remunerator
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: money handler, money dealer
Narrower terms: drawee, paymaster, taxpayer, tenant, renter, tither
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English pay Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English payer From pay + -er (“subject of action”).
Across languages
Translations
83 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: pagues — one who pays
- Albanian: pagator — one who pays
- Arabic: دَافِع (dāfiʕ) — one who pays
- Armenian: վճարող (včaroġ) — one who pays
- Azerbaijani: ödəyici — one who pays
- Belarusian: плаце́льшчык (placjélʹščyk) — one who pays
- Belarusian: плаце́льшчыца (placjélʹščyca) — one who pays
- Belarusian: пла́тнік (plátnik) — one who pays
- Belarusian: пла́тніца (plátnica) — one who pays
- Bulgarian: плате́ц (platéc) — one who pays
- Chinese Mandarin: 支付者 (zhīfùzhě) — one who pays
- Chinese Mandarin: 付款人 (fùkuǎnrén) — one who pays
- Czech: plátce — one who pays
- Czech: plátkyně — one who pays
- Czech: platitel — one who pays
- Czech: platitelka — one who pays
- Danish: betaler — one who pays
- Dutch: betaler — one who pays
- Esperanto: paganto — one who pays
- Estonian: maksja — one who pays
- Finnish: maksaja — one who pays
- French: payeur — one who pays
- French: payeuse — one who pays
- Georgian: გადამხდელი (gadamxdeli) — one who pays
- German: Zahler — one who pays
- German: Zahlerin — one who pays
- Greek: πληρωτής (plirotís) — one who pays
- Hindi: दाता (dātā) — one who pays
- Hindi: भुगतानकर्ता (bhugtānkartā) — one who pays
- Icelandic: gjaldandi — one who pays
- Icelandic: greiðandi — one who pays
- Indonesian: pembayar — one who pays
- Italian: pagatore — one who pays
- Italian: pagatrice — one who pays
- Japanese: 支払人 (shiharainin) — one who pays
- Kazakh: төлеуші (töleuşı) — one who pays
- Khmer: អ្នកបង់ប្រាក់ (nĕək bɑng prak) — one who pays
- Korean: 지불인 (jiburin) — one who pays
- Kyrgyz: төлөөчү (tölööcü) — one who pays
- Lao: ຜູ້ຈ່າຍເງິນ (phū chāi ngœn) — one who pays
- Latvian: maksātājs — one who pays
- Lithuanian: mokėtojas — one who pays
- Macedonian: платец (platec) — one who pays
- Macedonian: плаќач (plaḱač) — one who pays
- Malay: pembayar — one who pays
- Mongolian: төлөгч (tölögč) — one who pays
- Mongolian: ᠲᠥᠯᠦᠭᠴᠢ (tölügči) — one who pays
- Norwegian Bokmål: betaler — one who pays
- Norwegian Nynorsk: betalar — one who pays
- Old English: ġielda — one who pays
- Persian: پرداختکننده (pardâxt-konande) — one who pays
- Polish: płatnik — one who pays
- Polish: płatniczka — one who pays
- Portuguese: pagante — one who pays
- Portuguese: pagador — one who pays
- Romanian: plătitor — one who pays
- Romanian: plătitoare — one who pays
- Russian: плате́льщик (platélʹščik) — one who pays
- Russian: плате́льщица (platélʹščica) — one who pays
- Serbo-Croatian: пла̀тиша — one who pays
- Serbo-Croatian: пла́тац — one who pays
- Serbo-Croatian: plàtiša — one who pays
- Serbo-Croatian: plátac — one who pays
- Slovak: platca — one who pays
- Slovak: platkyňa — one who pays
- Slovak: platiteľ — one who pays
- Slovak: platiteľka — one who pays
- Slovene: plačnik — one who pays
- Slovene: plačnica — one who pays
- Spanish: pagador — one who pays
- Spanish: pagadora — one who pays
- Swedish: betalare — one who pays
- Tajik: пулдиҳанда (puldihanda) — one who pays
- Tajik: пардохткунанда (pardoxtkunanda) — one who pays
- Tatar: түләүче (tüläwçe) — one who pays
- Thai: ผู้จ่ายเงิน (pûu-jàai-ngən) — one who pays
- Turkish: ödeyici — one who pays
- Turkmen: töleýji — one who pays
- Ukrainian: платни́к (platnýk) — one who pays
- Ukrainian: платни́ця (platnýcja) — one who pays
- Uyghur: تۆلىگۈچى (töligüchi) — one who pays
- Uzbek: toʻlovchi — one who pays
- Vietnamese: người trả tiền — one who pays