payroll

CEFRC1

/ˈpeɪˌɹəʊl/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A list of employees and the money paid to them.
02
noun
Extra detail
The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.

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At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The total sum of money paid to employees.
A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
Bribes paid to people.

In context

Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.
Grantees may elect to payroll the enrollees through their own payroll system if the payroll system is consistent with regulations contained herein.
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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Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.
2025 June 27, Michael M. Grynbaum, “The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jun...
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?
1957, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
We can spread a rumor this cop was dirty. Look, Tom, we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we?
1972, The Godfather, spoken by Michael Corleone
Grantees may elect to payroll the enrollees through their own payroll system if the payroll system is consistent with regulations contained herein.
1985, The Code of Federal regulations of the United States of America, page 37

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