Definition of Payroll

1. Noun. A list of employees and their salaries. "The company had a long payroll"

Exact synonyms: Paysheet
Terms within: Earnings, Pay, Remuneration, Salary, Wage
Generic synonyms: Register

2. Noun. The total amount of money paid in wages. "The company had a large payroll"
Exact synonyms: Paysheet
Generic synonyms: Amount, Amount Of Money, Sum, Sum Of Money

3. Noun. The department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee.
Exact synonyms: Payroll Department
Generic synonyms: Department, Section

Definition of Payroll

1. Noun. A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each. ¹

2. Noun. The total sum of money paid to employees. ¹

3. Noun. (computing) 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Payroll

1. a list of employees entitled to payment [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Payroll

paynizing
paynym
paynyms
payoff
payoff function
payoffs
payola
payolas
payor
payors
payot
payout
payouts
payphone
payphones
payroll (current term)
payroll check
payroll department
payroller
payrolls
pays
pays d'état
paysage
paysages
payscale
payscales
paysd
payse
paysheet

Literary usage of Payroll

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Global War on Terrorism: Dod Needs to Improve the Reliability of Cost Data by Sharon L. Pickup, Gregory D. Kutz (2006)
"From the DOD payroll system, we identified the payroll information for Army soldiers mobilized to support GWOT operations in fiscal year 2004 and analyzed ..."

2. OECD Economic Surveys: Slovak Republic by OECD Staff (2005)
"The case for cutting payroll taxes for low skilled workers Not only is the ... However, most proposals have involved cuts to payroll taxes across the board. ..."

3. Business Costs by De Witt Carl Eggleston, Frederick Bertrand Robinson (1921)
"payroll Analysis Sheet.— The operation of a cost system usually requires that all payrolls be departmentalized. Since there are generally four or five ..."

4. Taxing Wages (2006)
"payroll taxes The tax base of payroll taxes is either a proportion of the ... In the OECD Revenue Statistics payroll taxes are reported under heading 3000 ..."

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