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payroll

Definition

  • noun: a list of the people who work for a company and the amount of money that the company has agreed to pay them
  • noun: a paymaster's or employer's list of those entitled to pay and of the amounts due to each
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: base pay, compensation, dismissal wage

Examples

  • She's in charge of the company's 'payroll' department. [=the department that is responsible for paying employees]

  • Businesses are keeping their 'payrolls' low by embracing new technologies.

  • He's the manager of a baseball team with a $50 million 'payroll'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) promise to pay you. Don't you want to know why? OK, why? On account of the payroll thieves, fellow citizens. You see, every mine around gets its payroll from La Paz. And every mine around gets its payroll held up. Some say it's the Bolivian Bandits, and some say that it's the (..)
    1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid