payroll
noun
a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each.
payrolls
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pluralof payroll.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Kyle Tucker’s sub-.240 batting average and the oft-injured Edwin Díaz cost the Dodgers $83 million this year — more than the entire payrolls of the Marlins and Guardians.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
For more than a decade, Los Angeles’ premier sports teams — the Lakers and the Dodgers — have relied on big-ticket TV rights deals to boost their operations and player payrolls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“While the weaker than expected nonfarm payrolls numbers last week help, the CPI numbers later today are arguably more important,” the senior currency analyst adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Investors viewed the weaker payrolls backdrop as reducing the likelihood of near-term Fed tightening, thereby easing a key valuation headwind for risk assets,” said Chew.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
We conferred together and I recommended to the Congress and you subsequently approved taking 2 percent from payrolls and 10 percent from controllable expenditures.
From State of the Union Address by Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) Johnson
