paymaster

[ pey-mas-ter, -mah-ster ]

noun

1. a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.

paymaster

/ ˈpeɪˌmɑːstə /

noun

1. an official of a government, business, etc, responsible for the payment of wages and salaries

Other Words From

• paymaster·ship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of paymaster¹

First recorded in 1540–50; pay ¹ + master

Example Sentences

Richard Mellon Scaife—paymaster of the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’—died July 4.

From The Daily Beast

And a little later we, too, left the post, following in the dusty wake of the paymaster's wagon and its mounted escort.

From Project Gutenberg

I tore back to the paymaster's camp and begged him to get his men mounted and we would follow it up.

From Project Gutenberg

He told her that he had sent us to look for it, and that we had taken advantage of the opportunity to rob the paymaster.

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Piegan snorted when I told him we were on the dodge—that they were trying to nail us for holding up the paymaster.

From Project Gutenberg

As paymaster he had large sums of public money in his hands to meet calls at fixed periods.

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Related Words

• accountant
• clerk
• teller