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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A list of employees receiving wages or salaries, with the amounts due to each.
  • noun The total sum of money to be paid out to employees at a given time.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
  • noun The total sum of money paid to employees.
  • noun computing The series of accounting transactions that ensure that employees are paid correctly, and that all taxes etc are properly deducted; the department in a company responsible for it.
  • verb transitive To place on a payroll.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee
  • noun the total amount of money paid in wages
  • noun a list of employees and their salaries

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Examples

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  • But the payroll is at $53 million, attendance was down 12% and star hitters Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell aren't getting any younger.

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  • Although their payroll is the highest in the league, the Rangers again played without right wing Pavel Bure, defenseman Brian

    NHL - National Hockey League - Ottawa vs. N.Y. Rangers 2002

  • The president also would offer what he calls a payroll tax holiday, an elimination of payroll taxes in 2012 for any business that increases its payroll by hiring new workers or increasing wages for existing workers.

    unknown title 2011

  • It is a mark of how general manager Alex Anthopoulos is viewed in this market that he can mention the phrase "payroll parameters" six times in a news conference in which he has acquired a cheap closer; rail against reports that he has a bottomless pit of money and essentially shoo away time-wasting agents at the winter meetings; go all tough love on everybody and make it clear that in the classic chicken-and-egg scenario, revenues are the egg and payroll is the chicken; have his owners sink half a billion dollars into buying a stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment - and still be deemed the favourite to spend $120-million all currency U.S. to sign somebody who hasn't thrown a pitch in the major leagues.

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  • WASHINGTON -- House leaders Monday night delayed their vote on a short-term payroll tax holiday, and in the process aired a rare repudiation of their GOP colleagues in the Senate.

    Payroll Tax Cut Bill: House To Wait Until Tuesday To Vote On Measure [UPDATED] The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • But the shortfall widened dramatically after last year's recession led to a sharp drop in payroll-tax revenue.

    French Pension Protests Heat Up David Gauthier-Villars 2010

  • But the shortfall widened dramatically after last year 's recession led to a sharp drop in payroll-tax revenue.

    French Unions Threaten New Actions David Gauthier-Villars 2010

  • To the extent tax cuts are included, a cut in payroll taxes would do much more to save/create jobs.

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  • To the extent tax cuts are included, a cut in payroll taxes would do much more to save/create jobs.

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