paymaster

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

chamberlain comptroller purser clerk depositary liquidator receiver controller collector donor banker mercenary treasurer accountant financier
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Antonyms

debt receiver recipient beneficiary borrower villain
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Hypernyms

payer remunerator

Phrases with the word

Paymaster-General

Examples

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you. Edwin Lefèvre

A good paymaster never wants workmen. English Proverb

A good paymaster does not hesitate to give good security. Italian Proverb

From a bad paymaster take straw--i.e. any trifle. Italian Proverb

After college, he went on to become an acting assistant paymaster for the United States Navy from April 1864 to November 1865 and was admitted to the bar in 1865. Source: Internet

Despite opposition from fiscal hardliners such as Austria and the Netherlaands, observers believe that the EU’s paymaster Berlin will ram through an accord. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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