payroll

Definition

A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.

Etymology

From pay + roll.

Example Sentences

• "Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique."
• "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?"