receivable
receivable — adjective
1. describing an amount of money that someone is owed — meaning a customer or clien
describing an amount of money that someone is owed — meaning a customer or client has to pay it, but has not done so yet.
Jabari's hardware store reported accounts receivable of fifty thousand dollars last quarter.
postpositive: 'accounts receivable' (standard accounting term)
The audit team reviewed the receivable balance from the previous fiscal year.
prenominal: 'receivable balance'
The invoice is still receivable because the client missed the payment deadline.
Lien classified all receivable amounts over ninety days as high-risk.
Sumin's startup sold its receivable accounts to a finance company for fast payment.
- outstanding
broader term; can also mean 'excellent' (unrelated sense). In financial contexts, roughly interchangeable but 'outstanding' focuses on the unpaid status rather than who is owed.
- unpaid
simpler and more common; less specific because it does not imply the money is expected by a particular person or business.
- due
focuses on the deadline; a payment can be due even if it has already been sent. 'Receivable' looks at the same situation from the receiver's side.
- payable
money that a person or business owes to someone else — the opposite perspective on the same transaction.
文法句型
accounts receivable (postpositive)
receivable + noun (prenominal)
用法筆記
Domain is almost exclusively accounting and finance. The adjective appears most often after the noun, especially in the fixed phrase 'accounts receivable' (money owed to a business for goods or services already delivered). Prenominal use (e.g. 'receivable balance', 'receivable amounts') is also standard in business writing. In everyday conversation, speakers typically use 'unpaid' or 'outstanding' instead.