payer

[ pey-er ]

noun

1. a person who pays. pay.
2. the person named in a bill or note who has to pay the holder.

payer

/ ˈpeɪə /

noun

1. a person who pays
2. the person named in a commercial paper as responsible for its payment on redemption

Word History and Origins

Origin of payer¹

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; pay ¹, -er ¹

Example Sentences

They asked for the agency to include a section in the plan on how this will affect the cost of living for individual rate payers.

From Voice of San Diego

Nothing gives a man a better standing in a community than the fact that he is a house-holder, a payer of taxes on real estate.

From Vox

The FDA has transferred its responsibility down to the payers, and making payers out to be the bad guy.

From Washington Post

Instead, Medicaid, the federal-state program that covers the health care of very low-income Americans, ends up being the primary payer for long-term care.

From Time

American health care, a labyrinth of private, state, and federal payers with different reimbursement policies, makes covering telehealth visits a headache.

From MIT Technology Review

To make it even more bizarre, Shumlin has plans to turn Vermont into the only state with single-payer health insurance.

From The Daily Beast

Earlier that day one of the visitors payer her respects at the Kucherenko house could not stop crying.

From The Daily Beast

Opponents to single payer certainly have reasons to believe the momentum is on their side.

From The Daily Beast

But proponents of single payer pointed to polls that show a majority of Americans want some version of Medicare for all.

From The Daily Beast

They torpedo the Affordable Care Act, and I believe we will now have single payer in this country within the next 15 years.

From The Daily Beast

The attestation of this payment of the tax-payer is signed by the postal employé and bears the stamp of his post office.

From Project Gutenberg

The Depositor (Payer) is bound before leaving the office to examine the entries sufficiently so as to see that they are correct.

From Project Gutenberg

Whoever in favour of another,—the depositor,—pays in the first payment and signs the deposit-book in his name is called the Payer.

From Project Gutenberg

She had been a tax-payer in the district twenty-two years, and was considered a progressive woman.

From Project Gutenberg

We were no longer payer and paid—we were friends—friends for life.

From Project Gutenberg