How to Use payee in a Sentence

payee

noun
  • The payee must endorse the back of the check.
  • Some scammers don't change the amount on the check but will change the payee.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Often, the thieves would open a new bank account with a minimum amount but with the payee's name.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Someone may need a payee, but no one is willingly coming forward to serve in that role.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Hayes forged the names of the payees on the checks, according to prosecutors.
    — Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2025
  • At the time, the attorney said their paralegal looked over it and saw the payoff amount had changed as well as the payee.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 Dec. 2024
  • A couple told police on April 19 that someone changed the amount and the payee on a check.
    — Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2022
  • So companies that tailor payment options to the diverse needs of their payees have an edge.
    — First Horizon Bank, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • There are now more than a dozen payee businesses operating statewide.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Under existing law, anybody and his brother could apply to be your rep payee.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Mazei then wrote her own name as payee of the transactions and deposited them in her personal accounts.
    — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Further review found that someone had intercepted the check and changed the name of the payee to a female and had cashed the check.
    — Houston Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The park district was reportedly listed as the customer and payee in the contract.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
  • Due to the disparity in tax rates that exist in these cases, this would have a negative effect on the payee.
    — Sarah O'Brien, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2017
  • The payee line was made out to the US Treasury but had been scratched off and written in the name of the suspect.
    — cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Once the loans were paid out, the recipients would provide Sary multiple checks with the payee’s name left blank.
    — Madeleine O'Neill, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024
  • In bureaucratic and grand corruption, the payer and the payee are mainly just trying to get rich.
    — Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
  • If available, enable delays or approval requirements for first-time transfers to new payees.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Sign up for account alerts through your bank so that you're notified of every deposit, every cash withdrawal, any new payee, etc.
    — Teresa Dixon Murray, cleveland.com, 11 Feb. 2018
  • All of these use cases involve money moving from a payer (buyer) on the demand side to a payee (seller) on the supply side.
    — Srinivas Vadhri, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • Enable banking alerts for large withdrawals, new payees, password changes, unusual logins and new device sign-ins.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Also, check washers can remove all the writing from your checks except for the signature, so just filling out the payee line won’t prevent fraud.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The bill seeks to hold prospective payees financially harmless by excluding any payouts from their gross income.
    — Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Enable alerts on bank and credit card accounts for large transactions, new payees, or changes to contact information.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This one, too, involved a young adult whose caretaker—in this case, a nonprofit organization—was the payee.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025
  • In instances of checkwashing, the suspects come across a check, often lately stolen in the mail, and use chemicals to remove the amount and the name of the payee.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 6 May 2022
  • An especially poignant moment was when a close friend provided a check with the payee line left blank, demonstrating immense trust and support.
    — Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Beyond details like payee, account, and amount, each transaction has a homepage with fields for follow-up flags, notes, tags, and attachments.
    — PCMAG, 5 June 2024
  • Based on one person’s judgment call, arrangements are made to have the government’s check sent to a representative payee.
    — Jeffrey Swanson, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2017
  • As a new month starts, a new batch of Social Security benefit payments will be made for payees starting this week.
    — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025

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