payroll department
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈpeɪroʊl dɪˈpɑːrtmənt/
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departamento de nómina
- You know, the administrators, the producers, the payroll department, the sponsors?"
Examples
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Can you get the supply teachers' worksheets to the payroll department, and collate 30 copies of the newsletter for tonight's PTA meeting?
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Restoring service to the payroll department became an immediate priority, so people could get paid.
Academic text (2007) -
It's in the public record, payroll department, and if you say I told you this, I'll deny it.
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Generally, your contact will be in your Human Resources or Payroll department, but ask your manager if you're not sure.
Blog text (9) -
Everybody makes mistakes, and payroll departments are no exception.
Blog text (9) -
But through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck.
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Now the vast majority of powerful business interests already pay well above the minimum wage, and even the ones that would be affected by the new requirements normally have well-organized payroll departments and would tend to comply with all these requirements.
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For any issues with your paycheck, please contact the payroll department for assistance.
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The payroll department is responsible for processing employee salaries and ensuring accurate payments.
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She works in the payroll department, where she calculates employee wages each month.
Synonyms
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3.5
The team at a company that works out and pays employees' wages
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'payroll' refers to employee pay administration and 'department' denotes an organizational unit, so together they clearly mean the organizational unit that handles payroll. This construction is common across languages and follows standard noun-noun compounding, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The noun payroll department comes from the old idea of pay meaning money and roll meaning a 'list' of names on a paper roll that showed who should get paid. So the phrase now means the office that works out and gives workers their pay.