paymaster
a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
Origin of paymaster
1Other words from paymaster
- pay·mas·ter·ship, noun
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How to use paymaster in a sentence
But he had only returned to inveigle some officer with a gift for accounts into the paymastership.
Canada in Flanders, Volume I (of 3) | Lord Max Aitken BeaverbrookHe appears then to have been given a small post under the government, a paymastership, which he resigned in 1798.
In 1680 he resigned the paymastership and was made first commissioner of horse.
But when he was discarded, and had subsided into the Paymastership, he seems to have suffered a gradual deterioration.
Lord Chatham | Archibald Phillip Primrose RoseberyHe conducted his War Secretaryship with diligence, his Paymastership with what must be called legal honesty.
British Dictionary definitions for paymaster
/ (ˈpeɪˌmɑːstə) /
an official of a government, business, etc, responsible for the payment of wages and salaries
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