单词 | payer |
释义 | payern. A person who pays; esp. a person who pays a sum of money.Frequently as the second element of compounds, the first element being the thing paid, as tax-, ransom, rate, tithe payer: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > one who pays payerc1390 payor1554 pay-alla1652 c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vi. 41 (MED) He is þe presteste payere [v.r. payȝere] þat pore men habbeþ; He with-halt non hyne his huire. c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 353 (MED) Þe paier of þis fleischly dette askid of him bi his make be excusid fro al synne. 1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 39/2 The same sommes..to the paiers of the same shuld be restored. a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 11 (MED) A trew payer may bargeyn when hym lyste, But tylers of money be not for to tryste. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 25 In the handes of the payers of the sayd pencion. 1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 186 You shame the glory of the ransom-payer. 1658 in J. M. Beale Hist. Burgh & Parochial Schools Fife (unpubl. thesis, Edinb. Univ.) 134 To be assisters to and payers of the schoolmasters charges. 1752 E. Erskine Wks. (1871) III. 486 Fear not: though drowned in debt Thy husband is the payer. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xiv. 245 Gaming debts are made void, and monies actually paid to discharge such debts..may be recovered by the payer within three months. 1864 C. M. Yonge Trial I. viii. 142 Forgetting her has not been easy to the payers of duty calls. 1890 G. Gissing Emancipated III. ii. xvii. 288 Hither came no payers of formal calls, no leavers of cards. 1904 W. T. Mills Struggle for Existence (ed. 8) xlvii. 628 Your work is not done until you make your new man a payer for socialism as well as a voter for it. 1953 J. M. Cohen tr. J.-J. Rousseau Confessions i. iv. 138 M. Simon was..a great payer of compliments, and almost dandyish in the attention he paid to his dress. 2000 Caterer & Hotelkeeper 25 May 4/1 Increasing charges could make slow payers even more reluctant to cough up. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1390 |
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