paymaster

noun

pay·mas·ter ˈpā-ˌma-stər

: an officer or agent whose duty it is to pay salaries or wages

Examples of paymaster in a Sentence

She worked as the company's paymaster for 22 years.

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For all the drawbacks of the desert, Deadline can reveal that Desert Warrior’s delay has been caused by post-production issues, not least wrangling over the movie’s tone, pacing, and length between Wyatt and his paymasters. —

Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024 The paymaster and armorer of Hezbollah and Hamas is Iran, the world’s No. 1 sponsor of terrorism. —

New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024 In a surprise defeat, a member of Labour’s shadow cabinet, paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth, lost to an independent candidate in Leicester South, where a third of the population is Muslim. —

NBC News, 5 July 2024 But the gangs would multiply with support from political paymasters who wielded them as tools of oppression. —

Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for paymaster