payroll

Definition of Payroll in English :

1. payroll, paysheet

a list of employees and their salaries

Example Sentences:
'the company had a long payroll'

2. payroll, paysheet

the total amount of money paid in wages

Example Sentences:
'the company had a large payroll'

the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Payroll

noun

1.

a list of employees, specifying the salary or wage of each

2.

a.

the total of these amounts or the actual money equivalent

b.

(as modifier)

a payroll tax

noun

1.

a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each

2.

the total amount needed, or the money on hand, for this for a given period

n.

1. A list of employees receiving wages or salaries, with the amounts due to each.

2. The total sum of money to be paid out to employees at a given time.