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Receivable   Listen
adjective
Receivable  adj.  Capable of being received.
Bills receivable. See under 6th Bill.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Receivable" Quotes from Famous Books



... be no bank notes less than $5.00, and every bill of exchange, or bill payable at sight, was to be receivable ...
— A Brief History of Panics • Clement Juglar

... much reason to be anxious about our debts. Not what we had to pay of our own debts could give us much trouble, but rather what we might have to pay for our debtors. It was not our bills payable but our bills receivable which required attention, for we soon had to begin meeting both. Even our own banks had to beg us not to draw upon our balances. One incident will shed some light upon the currency situation. One of our pay-days was approaching. One hundred ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie • Andrew Carnegie

... of so much of the legal-tender act as makes these notes receivable for debts contracted after a date to be fixed in the act itself, say not later than the 1st of January, 1877. We should then have quotations at real values, not fictitious ones. Gold would no longer be at a premium, but ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant • James D. Richardson

... supposition that life is, or can be, other than a dream to a dreamer. Shut him up in a counting-room, barricade him with bales of merchandise, and limit his library to the ledger and cash-book and his prospect to the neighboring signs; talk "Bills receivable" and "Sundries Dr. to cash" to him forever, and you are only a very amusing or very annoying phantom to him. The merchant-prince might as well hope to make himself a poet, as the poet a practical or practicable man. He has laws to obey not at all the less ...
— Literary and Social Essays • George William Curtis



Words linked to "Receivable" :   due, accounts receivable, note receivable



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