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Business Definition for: bills payable

bills payable

  1. trade obligations of a firm, such as a trade acceptance or banker's acceptance , payable at maturity.
  2. a bank's indebtedness to other banks, principally an advance from a Federal Reserve Bank, backed by the bank's own promissory note and a pledge of government securities as collateral.See also borrowed funds .

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