paymaster

[ pey-mas-ter, -mah-ster ]
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noun
  1. a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.

Origin of paymaster

1
First recorded in 1540–50; pay1 + master

Other words from paymaster

  • pay·mas·ter·ship, noun

Words Nearby paymaster

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How to use paymaster in a sentence

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

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

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • I tore back to the paymaster's camp and begged him to get his men mounted and we would follow it up.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • 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.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • Piegan snorted when I told him we were on the dodge—that they were trying to nail us for holding up the paymaster.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for paymaster

paymaster

/ (ˈpeɪˌmɑːstə) /


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

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