HOW TO PRONOUNCE
payroll
/ˈpeɪˌɹoʊl/
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What does payroll mean?
noun
- A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
- The total sum of money paid to employees.
- The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
More meanings (2)
noun
- Bribes paid to people.
verb
- To place on a payroll (noun sense 1).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpeɪˌɹoʊl/
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With only a two-seat majority in the Chamber of Deputies, Mitsotakis has concentrated on cutting the public-sector payroll, cautiously expanding the tax base, and adopting guidelines for privatizing Greece's loss-ridden state-owned enterprises.
When legislation was secured which placed the probation officers upon the payroll of the county, it was a challenge to the efficiency of the civil service method of appointment to obtain by examination men and women fitted for this delicate human task.
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It was said, too, that he had built his brick-kiln in the same way, and that the workmen were on the city payroll while they did it; however, one had to press closely to get these things out of the men, for it was not their business, and Mike Scully was a good man to stand in with.
On the employer's side, this feeling is expressed in the surrender of profits to provide work in dull seasons; in the retention of aged mechanics, laborers, or clerks on the payroll after their usefulness has passed; in pensions; in a score of neighborly and friendly offices to those who are sick, injured, or in trouble.