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payroller

payroller noun: someone on a payroll; someone who earns a salary.

Noun

payroller (plural payrollers)

  1. Someone on a payroll; someone who earns a salary.
    • Seven pages later in the same paper: "Marie A. D'Amico covered her face and sobbed Thursday as she was sentenced to a year in prison for being a ghost payroller in three local government jobs.1995 January 27, Michael Miner, “ABA Journal: Witness for the Defense/News Bites”, in Chicago Reader
    • Typically the person challenging the petitions is a city payroller who owes his job to the incumbent.2006 December 15, Ben Joravsky, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Machines; One Way to Trip Up an Incumbent? Untie His Shoelace”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of payroller

pluralpayrollers

Origin of payroller

From payroll + -er.

Questions about payroller

What does payroller mean?
Payroller means someone on a payroll; someone who earns a salary.
What part of speech is payroller?
Payroller is a noun.
What is the plural of payroller?
The plural of payroller is payrollers.

Words near payroller in the dictionary

  1. payroll tax
  2. payroll taxes
  3. payrolled
  4. payrollee
  5. payrollees
  6. payroller
  7. payrollers
  8. payrolling
  9. payrolls
  10. payrun
  11. payruns

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