payroll
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payroll (plural payrolls)
- A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
- The total sum of money paid to employees.
- (accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
- (euphemistic) Bribes paid to people.
- 1957, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged:
- 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?
- 1972, The Godfather, spoken by Michael Corleone:
- We can spread a rumor this cop was dirty. Look, Tom, we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we?
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- (list): paysheet
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list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each
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total sum of money paid to employees
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calculation of salaries and wages, department that does this
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Verb edit
payroll (third-person singular simple present payrolls, present participle payrolling, simple past and past participle payrolled)
- (transitive) To place on a payroll.
- 1985, The Code of Federal regulations of the United States of America, page 37:
- Grantees may elect to payroll the enrollees through their own payroll system if the payroll system is consistent with regulations contained herein.