receivables

receivables
The word receivables has no legal definition, but is used to mean the amounts owed to a business by debtors.

Practical Law Dictionary. Glossary of UK, US and international legal terms. . 2010.


receivables

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

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