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payroll
What does payroll mean?
payroll (noun): a list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use payroll in a sentence?
- The company had a long payroll. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce payroll?
/ˈpeɪˌɹoʊl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does payroll come from?
From pay + roll.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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