receivable
pronunciation
How to pronounce receivable in British English:
UK [rɪˈsi:vəbl]
How to pronounce receivable in American English:
US [rɪˈsivəbəl]
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- Adjective:
- awaiting payment
Word Origin
- receivable (adj.)
- late 14c., from receive + -able, and in part from Anglo-French or Old French recevable, from Old French recoivre. Related: Receivables.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Unpaid bills , in the form of accounts receivable , are rising fast in china .
- 2. Unpaid bills are harder to hide so the rise in accounts receivable points to a problem .
- 3. But with demand growth fading , strong sales built on rising accounts receivable surely won 't prove stable .
- 4. Asked about accounts receivable and why they were the same from month to month , the group said the machinery had very stable rates .
- 5. For the first half of 2011 , it reported $ 47.8 million in accounts receivable and inventories in the period relating to rare earths .