payroll

About 3.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
2. noun The total sum of money paid to employees.
3. noun The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
4. noun A list of people to receive bribes.
5. verb To place on a payroll (noun sense 1).

Similar words

paysheet paycheck wages earnings payday salary paye wage withholding remuneration

Often followed by

taxes tax and of for deductions records system period

Word family

payrolls