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PAYMASTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paymaster mean?
• PAYMASTER (noun)
The noun PAYMASTER has 1 sense:
1. a person in charge of paying wages
Familiarity information: PAYMASTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person in charge of paying wages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("paymaster" is a kind of...):
payer; remunerator (a person who pays money for something)
Context examples
Did I forbid myself to think of him in any other light than as a paymaster?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
This should put another bird in the cage. I had no idea that the paymaster was such a rascal, though I have long had an eye upon him.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Where a good man can always earn a good wage, and where he need look upon no man as his paymaster, but just reach his hand out and help himself.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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