Definitions for payroll

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payroll pay·roll

Spelling: [pey-rohl]

IPA: /ˈpeɪˌroʊl/

Payroll is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in payroll (allopry).

Definitions for payroll

noun

1. a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each.
2. the sum total of these amounts.
3. the actual money on hand for distribution:
4. the total number of people employed by a business firm or organization.

verb (used with object)

1. to fund or subsidize:

Origin of payroll

First recorded in 1765-75; pay¹ + roll

Examples for payroll

Little things like bein' on the payroll or not wa'n't botherin' him then.

Khouzhik promptly placed all of them on the payroll of his Management.

I ain't on your payroll and so I can speak out free and independent.

Even with several judges on her payroll, Mandelbaum was not able to squirm out of the charges.

The temporary reduction of Social Security payroll taxes was allowed to expire in early 2013.

And not a man or a woman was docked or dropped from the payroll.

“There is always at least one ISIS person on the payroll; they force people on us,” says an aid coordinator.

Begich has courageously talked of eliminating the payroll tax cap of around $115,000.

Also around this time, Hollywood began to put the pioneering filmmakers of New Queer Cinema on their payroll.

This will save you $4.00 on that particular part of your payroll.