Paymaster
['peɪmɑːstə] or ['pemæstɚ]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Louise
Examples
- The paymaster was detained in Austin so long that, if we had waited for him, we would have exceeded our leave. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Did I forbid myself to think of him in any other light than as a paymaster? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At any time such troops might go over to a better paymaster or decide to plunder the state they protected. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Remember this saying, _The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Checked by Blanchard