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payroll

[ pey-rohl ]

noun

  1. a list of employees to be paid, pay, with the amount due to each.
  2. the sum total of these amounts.
  3. the actual money on hand for distribution:

    The bandits got away with the payroll.

  4. the total number of people employed by a business firm or organization.


verb (used with object)

  1. to fund or subsidize:

    to be payrolled by the State Department.

payroll

/ ˈɪˌəʊ /

noun

  1. a list of employees, specifying the salary or wage of each
    1. the total of these amounts or the actual money equivalent
    2. ( as modifier )

      a payroll tax

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of payroll1

First recorded in 1765–75; pay 1 + roll
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Some of the employees accused of being the most prolific abusers were on the county payroll until recently.

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A union representing hospitality workers has accused an event management company subcontracted by the Long Beach Convention Center of underpaying workers and potentially skirting payroll taxes.

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Anyway, why would a secretary of Health and Human Services want to put on his payroll someone found to have practiced medicine without a license?

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The opening day payrolls of every Major League Baseball team and a trove of other information pertaining to cold, hard cash was calculated by the Associated Press and USA Today.

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In the secret filming, Dr Alaneme also described how to set up a fake payroll system to mask the fact the jobs are not real.

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