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单词 paymaster
释义
paymasterpay‧mas‧ter /ˈpeɪˌmɑːstə $ -ˌmæstər/ noun [countable] Examples
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  • After it's been dished out the paymasters ride on to take the pay to the men cutting down the forest.
  • And with no financial paymasters we avoid the compromises.
  • As paymaster he was responsible for the organization of the finance required in the restoration of the neglected royal palaces.
  • In a payroll robbery at a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, the paymaster and his guard were killed.
  • It is further evidence that its policies are merely the result of what its paymasters, the trade unions, say.
  • Like priests, paymasters in the Salomon empire followed a time-honored pattern.
  • They want to see an end to the image of trade unions as Labour's paymaster and, by implication, policy-maker.
  • Yet he is a survivor, sticking to his sobering material and plain aesthetic no matter who his paymaster is.
1a powerful person or organization that secretly pays and controls another person or organization:  The assassin’s paymasters were never identified.2someone who is responsible for giving people their wages that they are owed, for example an official in a factory or the army
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