Drawee

Definition: Drawee

Drawee

Noun

1. The person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment.

Domain	Definition
Finance	The financial institution on which a check is drawn. (references)
Shipping	The individual or firm that issues a draft and thus stands to receive payment. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Money	Drawer, drawee; obligor, obligee; moneyer, coiner.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Juggler Drawee (1902)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Drawee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drawee" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	8	124,375

Language		Translations for "drawee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tërheqës i parave, marrës i mandatpagesës. (various references)

Arabic		‏المسحوب عليه, ‏المطول عليه. (various references)

Bulgarian		лице на чието име се издава чек. (various references)

Chinese		受票人. (various references)

Czech		smìneèný dlužník. (various references)

Danish		en klart defineret debitors(trassaten ved trasserede veksler,trassenten ved egenveksler)anerkendelse af en gæld over for en klart defineret kreditor(trassenten ved trasserede veksler,remittenten ved egenveksler) (acknowledgment of the debt of a clearly specified debtor(the drawee of bills of exchange, the beneficiary of promissory notes), the drawer of promissory notes)towards an equally clearly specified creditor(the drawer of bills of exchange). (various references)

Finnish		vekselinhyväksyjä (acceptor of a bill). (various references)

French		tiré (drawn). (various references)

German		bezogene (acceptor). (various references)

Greek		αποδέκτησ (accepter, addressee, receiver). (various references)

Hebrew		פורע שטרות. (various references)

Hungarian		intézvényezett. (various references)

Korean		어음 수� 인. (various references)

Pig Latin		aweedray

Portuguese		sacado (payer). (various references)

Russian		трассат. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		osoba na čije se ime izdaje menica. (various references)

Spanish		de girado, girado (deranged, gyrate, turned). (various references)

Swedish		trassat. (various references)

Turkish		senet alan kimse, keşideci (drawer, giver). (various references)

Ukrainian		трасат. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "drawee": drawees. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-r-w"
	-1 letter: dewar, eared, rewed, wader, wared.
	-2 letters: awed, awee, dare, dear, deer, dere, draw, dree, drew, ewer, read, rede, reed, wade, ward, ware, wear, weed, weer, were.
	-3 letters: are, awe, daw, dee, dew, ear, era, ere, ewe, rad, raw, red, ree, wad, wae, war, wed, wee.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, ar, aw, de, ed, er, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-r-w"
	+1 letter: awardee, bewared, dewater, drawees, leeward, ragweed, redware, resawed, rewaked, rewaxed, tarweed, wafered, wagered, watered, wavered, wearied, wreaked.
	+2 letters: answered, awardees, bewrayed, dewaters, lawyered, leewards, overawed, ragweeds, reavowed, reawaked, redrawer, redwares, rereward, rewarded, rewarder, rewarmed, rewashed, reweaved, tarweeds, wandered, wanderer, waterbed, wreathed.
	+3 letters: becrawled, bedwarfed, beswarmed, bewearied, bewrapped, crazyweed, deepwater, delftware, dewatered, dewaterer, earwigged, enwrapped, headwater, leadscrew, prewarmed, prewarned, prewashed, redrawers, rerewards, rewakened, rewarders, rewrapped, shewbread, smartweed, stewarded, swaggered, tidewater, underwear, unwearied, wanderers, waterbeds, watershed, waterside, waterweed, weathered.
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