PAYROLL
Payroll
In a company, payroll is the sum of all financial records of salaries for an employee, wages, bonuses and deductions.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Payroll
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payroll
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 series of accounting transactions that ensure that employees are paid correctly, and that all taxes etc are properly deducted; the department in a company responsible for it.
- Bribes paid to people
- 1957: 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? - Francisco dAnconia, '''', .
- 1972: We can spread a rumor this cop was dirty. Look, Tom, we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we? - Michael Corleone, , .
Verb
- To place on a payroll.
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