Paymaster
['peɪmɑːstə] or ['pemæstɚ]
解释:
(n.) One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.
校对:路易丝
例句:
- The paymaster was detained in Austin so long that, if we had waited for him, we would have exceeded our leave. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Did I forbid myself to think of him in any other light than as a paymaster? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- At any time such troops might go over to a better paymaster or decide to plunder the state they protected. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Remember this saying, _The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
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