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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Three playoff teams — the Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Guardians and Chicago White Sox — rank among the six lowest payrolls, according to MLB present-day salary calculations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Markets will be eyeing the key U.S. nonfarm payrolls report at 1230 GMT for clues on whether a U.S. rate rise later this month remains possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
US non-farm payrolls figures later Friday are in focus as traders try to ascertain the Fed's next move after last month's rate hike.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The household survey includes the self-employed, agricultural workers and others not on company payrolls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
It had not occurred to me that anything could make the payrolls of these regiments more complicated than at present, or the men more rationally discontented.
From Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
