paymaster
a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
Origin of paymaster
1Other words from paymaster
- pay·mas·ter·ship, noun
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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. SinclairI 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. SinclairHe 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. SinclairPiegan 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
As paymaster he had large sums of public money in his hands to meet calls at fixed periods.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William Hunt
British Dictionary definitions for paymaster
/ (ˈpeɪˌmɑːstə) /
an official of a government, business, etc, responsible for the payment of wages and salaries
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