单词 | payroller |
释义 | payrollern. U.S. colloquial. A person on a payroll, a wage earner. Now chiefly Politics (frequently depreciative): a person employed or funded by (and hence expected to be loyal to) a particular party, institution, etc. Cf. ghost payroller n. at ghost n. and adj. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > employee > who receives wages statute labourer1509 wages-fellow1652 flint1765 wage-earner1885 wages-man1888 wage-worker1888 wage-winner1902 payroller1910 wage labourer1957 1910 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 10 Nov. 1/2 Just as soon..as they make an inventory of the Republican payrollers on the job there will be a house-cleaning. 1920 Syracuse (N.Y,) Herald 9 July 4/3 Present postmasters, Federal agents, revenue men and other payrollers were lined upon [sic] the Democratic side for Attorney General Palmer. 1930 Chicago Herald & Examiner 29 Dec. 4/3 Not only did Cook County's governmental octopus consume more than $391,000,000 and maintain 75,000 payrollers during 1930, but it has piled up a funded debt that now aggregates more than $400,000,000. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 2 July 4 a/1 Frankie was employed by the sheriff's office,..but a Democrat had regained it and was tossing out the GOP payrollers. 1988 Crain's Chicago Business (Nexis) 8 Feb. 10 This year's budget proposes to increase the number of county payrollers to more than 23,000—up 743 from the 1986 appropriation. 2002 Chicago Tribune 18 Mar. i. 12/2 Virtually every one of the incompetent payrollers and nepotism hires across Illinois will show up to vote Tuesday. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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