receivables

1. 1.

   money that you currently expect to receive from notes or accounts

   Broaderassets

   plural

Other forms of receivables

plural

receivableses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about receivables

What does receivables mean?

receivables means "money that you currently expect to receive from notes or accounts".

How many syllables are in receivables?

receivables has 4 syllables: re-cei-va-bles. The stress falls on "cei". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈsivəbəlz/.

Is receivables a common word?

receivables 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.