payroll

nom

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 total sum of money paid to employees.

3. 3

   The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.

4. 4

   Bribes paid to people.

   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?

   We can spread a rumor this cop was dirty. Look, Tom, we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we?

verbe

1. 1

   To place on a payroll (noun sense 1).

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

Formes

pluriel

payrolls

passé

payrolled

participe passé

payrolled

participe présent

payrolling

3ᵉ personne du singulier

payrolls