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Plural of payroll

regular plural

The plural of payroll is payrolls.

Forms of payroll

Singularpayroll /ˈpeɪˌɹəʊl/
Pluralpayrolls
Countablecountable

Payrolls in a sentence

  • This includes memos, schedules, reports, payrolls, etc.1985, David L. Altheide, Media power, page 221. From the entry keyboardable
  • As most of the food is prepackaged and frozen, and anyone can cook a hamburger or make a malted, drive-in payrolls run a full third under those for "walk-ins"1961, “Drive-ins Booming: Highway restaurants now a $6 billion annual business.”, in Financial World, volume 115, page 1060. From the entry walk-in

Meaning of payroll

  1. noun A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
  2. noun The total sum of money paid to employees.
  3. noun The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.

Full definition of payroll

Questions about the plural of payroll

What is the plural of payroll?
The plural of payroll is payrolls.
Is payroll countable?
Payroll is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: payroll (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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