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payroll
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun payroll has 3 senses
- payroll(n = noun.possession) paysheet - a list of employees and their salaries; "the company had a long payroll" has parts: earnings, pay, remuneration, salary, wage
- payroll(n = noun.possession) paysheet - the total amount of money paid in wages; "the company had a large payroll" is a kind of amount, amount of money, sum, sum of money
- payroll(n = noun.group) payroll department - the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee; Array is a kind of department, section
is a kind of register
THESAURUS
payroll
base pay, compensation, dismissal wage, earnings, escalator clause, escalator plan, financial remuneration, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, hire, income, living wage, minimum wage, net income, pay, pay and allowances, payment, portal-to-portal pay, purchasing power, real wages, remuneration, salary, severance pay, sliding scale, take-home, take-home pay, taxable income, total compensation, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes
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