payeeship
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]payeeship (countable and uncountable, plural payeeships)
- The role or status of payee.
- 1983, Stanley S. Herr, Stephen Arons, Richard Edward Wallace, Legal Rights and Mental-Health Care, page 136:
- Persons who receive income-payment benefits from a government agency may voluntarily seek, or be involuntarily subjected to, representative payeeship.
Usage notes
[edit]- Mainly in representative payeeship, the situation where one party receives payments on behalf of another.