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ˈpay-roll, payroll
[pay- 1.]
The total amount to be paid to employees in a specified period; also, (a list of) employees receiving regular pay. Freq. in phr. on the payroll: employed by a particular company or person. Also fig.
1740C. Cibber Apol. for Life xiii. 257 The Rate of their respective Sallaries were only enter'd in our daily Pay-Roll. 1775Rec. New Hampsh. Comm. Safety in New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1863) VII. 26 Examined and allowed Capt. Crafford's pay Roll of his men engaged for fourteen days. 1780Calendar Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 387 Enclose pay roll & account for purchase of kettles and dutch-ovens. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxix. 103 When the crew were paid off..the owners..generously refused to deduct the amount from the pay-roll. 1898Westm. Gaz. 9 July 6/1 An employer with a total pay-roll of {pstlg}30,000. 1921C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Three viii. 96 Looks like some Greaser had a grudge agin' him—somebody he's mebby fired off his payroll, or suspected of cattle-liftin'. Ibid. ix. 113, I ain't on Kane's payroll—yet. 1958Punch 23 July 98/1 Skilled British agents are showing cause why they should be retained on the pay-roll. 1964Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 11 Jan. (1970) 39 On to Goldsmith Mill where a payroll of about a hundred had been saved by the joint work of the Community and the ARA. 1968Time 17 May 66 Despite all the fuss at Columbia over IDA, none of its professors are actually on the IDA payroll. 1973‘H. Howard’ Highway to Murder viii. 98 Nobody on my payroll had anything to do with Vince Portelli's killing. 1977New Yorker 29 Aug. 87/1 The Italian anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men while stealing a payroll in South Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920 were executed on August 23, 1927.
2. attrib., as pay-roll index; pay-roll tax, a tax levied on businesses according to the number of persons employed or on the wages-bill of the business.
1934Planning II. xxxi. 7 The United Kingdom possesses nothing comparable to the payroll index, which is one of the major instruments of economic measurement in the United States. 1935N.Y. Times 16 Jan. 2/6 The plans sent to the President by his Cabinet Committee included: unemployment insurance, financed, in part, at least by a payroll tax. 1937M. Newcomer in Stud. in Current Tax Probl. 39 The new payroll taxes for unemployment insurance and old-age benefits will eventually become an important factor in the tax burden. 1971Sunday Australian 8 Aug. 5/4 Australia's State schools paid about $15 million in payroll tax in the last financial year. 1976in R. Crossman Diaries II. 58 Selective Employment Tax. A payroll tax paid by employers with some rebate for industrial enterprises. |