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A person in charge of paying wages
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paymaster
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A paymaster is someone appointed by a group of investors or government to dispense commissions , fees or salaries within the private sector or public sector . Specific titles within the British government are Paymaster of the Forces , Paymaster-General ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An official in charge of payments to employees, troops, etc. 2 A person or body which demands loyalty or services in return for payment (especially as paid in advance).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purser \Purs"er\, n. [See Purse , and cf. Bursar .] (Naut.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster . A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person in charge of paying wages
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After it's been dished out the paymasters ride on to take the pay to the men cutting down the forest. ▪ And with no financial paymasters we avoid the compromises. ▪ As paymaster he was responsible for the organization of the ...
Usage examples of paymaster.
Paymaster, you and the coxswain station yourselves in those doors, and keep a good look-out, to prevent surprise.
The power of fashionable slogans - such as informational macromolecules -and the search for sensational results to feed to press and paymasters swept caution to the winds.
He mentions Monge, Berthollet, Andreossy, the paymaster, Junot, and Bourrienne, secretary to the General-in-Chief.
There were half a dozen ducal titles needing to be provided with ducal incomes, and obliging the king to become a dependent pensionary of the liberal paymaster in France.
Donald, when the paymaster was at length resplendent in his completed toilet, and they were once more under way.
David Willetts resigned as Paymaster General after being criticised by the Standards and Privileges Committee, and Sir John Gorst said that the Government could no longer rely on his support as a Tory backbencher, which left his party teetering on the brink of losing its overall majority.
NIS field offices specialize in bent paymasters, which is why Santini here ought to have a record of this.
Anyway, with NKVD or Mossad as paymasters, an ambush was set up on the Rambouillet road and you drove into it.
The power of fashionable slogans - such as informational macromolecules -and the search for sensational results to feed to press and paymasters swept caution to the winds.
The citizens moved back uncertainly, torn between what they perceived to be their duty to resist violence and the threat to their paydays from the man they identified as the Paymaster.
The countrymen of Captain Flinty-heart here were the paymasters this time.
Charges of a similar nature were made against officers, contractors, quartermasters, paymasters, generals, and cabinet ministers.
Paperwork arranging the transfer of the appropriate sums to the military paymaster in the City was also processed.
The paymaster was draped in a rusty black suit, had a black patch over his right eye, and wore black gloves as well.
After all, history tells us that mercenaries in general have a very good record of loyalty to their paymasters.