accounts payable

1. 1.

   a debtor's accounts of money he owes; normally arise from the purchase of products or services

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Questions about accounts payable

What does accounts payable mean?

accounts payable means "a debtor's accounts of money he owes; normally arise from the purchase of products or services".

Is accounts payable a common word?

accounts payable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.