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Paying vs Payable - What's the difference?

paying | payable |

As nouns the difference between paying and payable

is that paying is payment while payable is (plural) debts owed by a business; liabilities.

As a verb paying

is .

As an adjective payable is

that which is to be paid.

paying

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • payment
  • * Philip H. Wicksteed, The Commonsense of Political Economy
  • It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable.

    payable

    English

    Noun

  • (plural) Debts owed by a business; liabilities.
  • A thing that may be paid.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That which is to be paid.
  • Is value added tax payable on planning application fees?
  • Able to be paid.
  • Of a mine etc.: capable of yielding profit; profitable.
  • Derived terms

    *payability *payably