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payroller

noun

Etymology

From payroll + -er.

  1. derived from rollāre
  2. derived from rotula — “a little wheel”
  3. derived from rotulāre — “to roll; to revolve”
  4. derived from roller
  5. inherited from rollen
  6. compounded as payroll — “pay + roll”
  7. suffixed as payroller — “payroll + er”

Definitions

  1. Someone on a payroll

    Someone on a payroll; someone who earns a salary.

    • Seven pages later in the same paper: "Marie A. D'Amico covered her face and sobbed Thursday as she was sentenced to a year in prison for being a ghost payroller in three local government jobs.
    • Typically the person challenging the petitions is a city payroller who owes his job to the incumbent.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA