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pay⋅roll

  [pey-rohl]
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–noun
1. a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each.
2. the sum total of these amounts.
3. the actual money on hand for distribution: The bandits got away with the payroll.
4. the total number of people employed by a business firm or organization.
–verb (used with object)
5. to fund or subsidize: to be payrolled by the State Department.
Origin:
1765–75; pay 1 + roll
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pay·roll also pay roll   (pā'rōl')   
n.  

  1. A list of employees receiving wages or salaries, with the amounts due to each.

  2. The total sum of money to be paid out to employees at a given time.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

payroll  (n.)
1740, from pay (v.) + roll (n.); "total amount paid to employees over a period," hence, via records-keeping, "list of employees receiving pay."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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