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payroll

/ˈpeɪˌɹoʊl/noun2 syllables

Payroll means: a list of employees and their salaries.

Synonyms for payroll2

noun, as in a list of employees and their salaries

paysheet

noun, as in the total amount of money paid in wages

paysheet

noun, as in the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee

payroll department

What does payroll mean?3

noun

1

a list of employees and their salaries“the company had a long payroll”

2

the total amount of money paid in wages“the company had a large payroll”

3

the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Payroll in a sentence

  • How many people are there on the payroll?CK
  • He is still on the payroll of the company.CK
  • In Japan, the payroll tax is usually withheld from the monthly salary.unknown
  • I have worked for one company where the payroll was snatched on a dark winter's night.unknown
  • He was on the payroll of an Algerian company known as Sonatrach.Amastan
  • Tom is still on the payroll.CK
  • Tom put me on the payroll.CM

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of payroll

as a noun

plural
payrolls