receivable
receivable Lexical Profile
receivable Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Awaiting payment or collection; owed to a business or creditor and recorded as an asset.
"The firm hired an outside auditor to review all accounts receivable before closing the fiscal year."
Capable of being received, accepted, or admitted as valid (especially in legal or formal contexts).
"The tribunal ruled that the late petition was still receivable under the revised procedural rules."
• noun
An amount of money owed to a business by its customers or debtors for goods or services delivered, typically used in the plural.
"The company improved its cash flow by offering a small discount to clients who settled their receivables early."
Word Nuance & Usage
In accounting, 'receivable' often follows the noun it modifies (as in 'accounts receivable' or 'notes receivable'), a syntactic pattern inherited from French legal and commercial terminology.
• Rhymes for receivable
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French 'recevable', derived from 'receivre' ('to receive'), which traces back to Latin 'recipere' ('to take back, regain').