"payroll" meaning in English

See payroll in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈpeɪɹəʊl/ [UK], /ˈpeɪɹoʊl/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-payroll.wav Forms: payrolls [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪɹəʊl Etymology: From pay + roll. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|pay|roll}} pay + roll Head templates: {{en-noun}} payroll (plural payrolls)
  1. A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each. Categories (topical): Collectives Synonyms (list): paysheet Translations (list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each): платежна ведомост (platežna vedomost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), nòmina [feminine] (Catalan), loonlijst (Dutch), palkkalista (Finnish), registre de paie [masculine] (French), paie [feminine] (French), Gehaltsliste [feminine] (German), Lohnliste [feminine] (German), μισθοδοσία (misthodosía) [feminine] (Greek), bérlista (Hungarian), ruolino paga [masculine] (Italian), ruolo paga [masculine] (Italian), lista płac [feminine] (Polish), stat de plată [neuter] (Romanian), платежные ведомости (platežnyje vedomosti) [feminine, plural] (Russian), nómina [Latin-America, feminine] (Spanish), planilla [Central-America, feminine] (Spanish), plantilla [Spain, feminine] (Spanish), lönelista [common-gender] (Swedish), talasahuran (Tagalog)
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  2. The total sum of money paid to employees. Translations (total sum of money paid to employees): massa salarial [feminine] (Catalan), palkkasumma (Finnish), palkkakulut [plural] (Finnish), masse salariale [feminine] (French), Gehaltskosten [feminine] (German), Lohnkosten [feminine] (German), 인건비 (in'geonbi) (Korean), фонд заработной платы (fond zarabotnoj platy) [masculine] (Russian), talasahuran (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-payroll-en-noun-gxPt-l0V Disambiguation of 'total sum of money paid to employees': 8 83 2 7
  3. (accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this. Categories (topical): Accounting Translations (calculation of salaries and wages, department that does this): счетоводство (sčetovodstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), palkanlaskenta (Finnish), palkkatoimisto (Finnish), Gehaltsabrechnung [feminine] (German), Lohn- und Gehaltsabteilung [feminine] (German), μισθοδοσία (misthodosía) [feminine] (Greek), bérszámfejtés (Hungarian), расчётный лист (rasčótnyj list) [masculine] (Russian), платёжная ве́домость (platjóžnaja védomostʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-payroll-en-noun-PtBX9iSQ Topics: accounting, business, finance Disambiguation of 'calculation of salaries and wages, department that does this': 9 2 88 1
  4. (euphemistic) Bribes paid to people. Tags: euphemistic
    Sense id: en-payroll-en-noun-FeuMeI3t Categories (other): English euphemisms
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: e-payroll, payroll tax, payroll vote Related terms: payslip

Verb

IPA: /ˈpeɪɹəʊl/ [UK], /ˈpeɪɹoʊl/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-payroll.wav Forms: payrolls [present, singular, third-person], payrolling [participle, present], payrolled [participle, past], payrolled [past]
Rhymes: -eɪɹəʊl Etymology: From pay + roll. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|pay|roll}} pay + roll Head templates: {{en-verb}} payroll (third-person singular simple present payrolls, present participle payrolling, simple past and past participle payrolled)
  1. (transitive) To place on a payroll. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-payroll-en-verb-q24qQs1F

Inflected forms

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          "roman": "platjóžnaja védomostʹ",
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          "ref": "1957, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged:",
          "text": "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?",
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      "sense": "total sum of money paid to employees",
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      "code": "de",
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