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Payroll

//ˈpeɪˌɹəʊl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.

    "Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique."

  2. 2
    the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee wordnet
  3. 3
    The total sum of money paid to employees.
  4. 4
    a list of employees and their salaries wordnet
  5. 5
    The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
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  1. 6
    the total amount of money paid in wages wordnet
  2. 7
    Bribes paid to people. euphemistic

    "I know that the deal started with the boys in Santiago, because they’ve been on the d’Anconia pay roll for centuries — well, no, ‘pay roll’ is an honorable word, it would be more exact to say that d’Anconia Copper has been paying them protection money for centuries — isn't that what your gangsters call it?"

Verb
  1. 1
    To place on a payroll (noun sense 1). transitive

    "Grantees may elect to payroll the enrollees through their own payroll system if the payroll system is consistent with regulations contained herein."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From pay + roll.

Etymology 2

From pay + roll.

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