Definitions for paymaster

paymaster pay·mas·ter

Spelling: [pey-mas-ter, -mah-ster]
IPA: /ˈpeɪˌmæs tər, -ˌmɑ stər/

Paymaster is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 583 anagrams from letters in paymaster (aaemprsty).

Definitions for paymaster

noun

  1. a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.

Origin of paymaster

First recorded in 1540-50; pay1 + master

Examples for paymaster

The pensioners shared their attention between the paymaster and the boy.

The paymaster stared at this encounter, in some ways so much beyond his comprehension.

Maecenas with the humanists was almost synonymous with paymaster.

He will be paymaster, and you will conform to his wishes strictly as regards expense.

We are no longer his soldiers, since we have ceased to follow him; and he, on his side, is no longer our paymaster.

The paymaster drew up as if he had been shot, and swore warmly to himself.

The paymaster took his rattan and knocked noisily on the table for the landlord.

Richard Mellon Scaife—paymaster of the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’—died July 4.

"A droll fellow that of the paymaster's," they said of him in the town.

The paymaster's rattan sounded on the stair, and "Here's John," said his sister.

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