payroll

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Related topics: Wages, Companies

pay·roll /ˈpeɪrəʊl $ -roʊl/ noun

1 on the payroll if someone is on the payroll of a company, they are employed by that company 被雇用的

The company now has 350 people on the payroll.

该公司目前在职员工有350人。

Examples from the Corpus

on the payroll• Before going outside your organization look around to see whether there is anyone already on the payroll who could do the job.• Burns will be on the payroll until January 31.• There are no employees with serious disabilities on the payroll either, though with regard to that issue also they are open-minded.• And he defended eight of the 14 people listed as ghost employees on the payroll of then-Rep.• All those taxes and regulations force small business to keep nonproductive employees on the payroll.• Levies on the payroll will not have that effect.• To save money, many companies are putting their secretaries on the payroll of temporary personnel companies.• He asked Karloff, who was on the payroll for another three days, if he would do it.• The tax authorities insisted they put the women on the payroll.

2 [uncountableU]BEWBBC the activity of managing salary payments for workers in a company 〔公司员工的〕薪资管理

the payroll department

薪资管理部

a computerized payroll system

计算机化的薪资管理系统

3 [countableC, uncountableU]BEWBBC the total amount of wages paid to all the people working in a particular company or industry 〔公司或行业的〕工资总支出

the annual payroll was $88 million

年度工资总支出为8,800万美元

Examples from the Corpus

payroll• The 21-day partial shutdown of government that ended last week delayed jobless claims and payroll reports.• If you have even a few employees, payroll taxes mount quickly.• They also had the two highest payrolls in the league at roughly $ 50 million each.• Computervision Corp is cutting another 700 jobs to take its payroll to 5,000.• The financial administrative functions include budgeting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, payroll and personnel.• Suddenly I was spending more time managing my payroll than I was helping my clients.• A link with the payroll files was soon established.• Under the programme employers would be required to invest at least 0.5 percent of their payroll in training.

From Longman Business Dictionary

payrollpay·roll /ˈpeɪrəʊl-roʊl/ noun

1[countableC, uncountableU]ACCOUNTING the total amount of wages paid to all the people working in a particular company or industry

The company has cut its total payroll by 7% since the merger.

More than half the state budget goes to payroll and only 11% to public works.

2[uncountableU]HUMAN RESOURCES the activity of managing wage and SALARY payments for employees

The Human Resources Department is responsible for payroll administration.

3be on the payrollHUMAN RESOURCES to be employed by a particular company

Under the plan, every employee on the payroll can buy 100 shares at $127.25 each.

pay·roll noun

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