Get to know Paymaster better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like payer.
Paymaster meaning
- An official in charge of payments to employees, troops, etc.
- A person or body which demands loyalty or services in return for payment (especially as paid in advance).
Synonyms of Paymaster
Using Paymaster
- The main meaning on this page is: An official in charge of payments to employees, troops, etc. | A person or body which demands loyalty or services in return for payment (especially as paid in advance).
- Useful related words include: payer, remunerator.
- In the example corpus, paymaster often appears in combinations such as: paymaster general, paymaster of, shadow paymaster.
Context around Paymaster
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Paymaster
- In this selection, "paymaster" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, shadow, become, room, general, william and berlin stand out and add context to how "paymaster" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a new paymaster and acting assistant paymaster william f. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "paymaster" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with paymaster
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They could also serve as the paymaster for a legion. (10 words)
The Paymaster General Act 1782 ended the post as a lucrative sinecure. (12 words)
The Treasury would receive monthly statements of the Paymaster's balance at the Bank. (14 words)
Mr Glen, who is the Shadow Paymaster General, provided an an economic update for businesses in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire area after the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, delivered her first Budget since Labour's election win in July. (41 words)
Longstreet, pp. 32-33, claimed that he sought only appointment as a paymaster, but historians such as Wert believe this was falsely modest and that he sought the glory of infantry command from the earliest days. (36 words)
In Washington, D.C., Whitman's friend Charley Eldridge helped him obtain part-time work in the army paymaster's office, leaving time for Whitman to volunteer as a nurse in the army hospitals. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
In 1882, Marrable’s father would become paymaster of Queen Victoria’s household, while her aunt was a major influence on women’s painting in London in the late 1800s.
Like The Tiny Bubble Room, Paymaster has a lot of little nooks in which to send someone packing with dignity.
Mr Glen, who is the Shadow Paymaster General, provided an an economic update for businesses in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire area after the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, delivered her first Budget since Labour's election win in July.
Shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth told LBC this morning that the Conservatives “have been caught red-handed lying to the British public” by claiming the figures came from “independent” officials.
Despite opposition from fiscal hardliners such as Austria and the Netherlaands, observers believe that the EU’s paymaster Berlin will ram through an accord.
He later became Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office, a post he held from 24 July 2019 until today.
Oliver Dowden has become a full Cabinet member as Culture Secretary, having previously attended the meetings as paymaster general.
Anyways, Buhari is your paymaster, you have spoken from the prism of pecuniary interests and dispositions.
They were given a South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) card, which could be used at dedicated pay points provided by Cash Paymaster Services (CPS).
But the Court suspended its invalidity until 31 March 2018 to allow for the continuation of the payment of grants and to give Sassa time to appoint a new paymaster.
He became the official paymaster of the French troops supporting the Revolution and then the semi-official financier of the Revolutionary effort.
He remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Zachary Taylor to the U.S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.
In Washington, D.C., Whitman's friend Charley Eldridge helped him obtain part-time work in the army paymaster's office, leaving time for Whitman to volunteer as a nurse in the army hospitals.
Longstreet, pp. 32-33, claimed that he sought only appointment as a paymaster, but historians such as Wert believe this was falsely modest and that he sought the glory of infantry command from the earliest days.
Seated in chairs, middle row, left to right: Acting Master Louis N. Stodder; Acting Assistant Paymaster William F. Keeler; Acting Volunteer Lieutenant William Flye; Acting Assistant Surgeon Daniel C. Logue.
Springer, p. 66-67 and he used to say that the poor were his best patients because God was their paymaster.
The letters of Acting Paymaster William F. Keeler to his wife Anna also corroborate many of the accounts of affairs that took place aboard the Monitor.
The Paymaster General Act 1782 ended the post as a lucrative sinecure.
The Treasury would receive monthly statements of the Paymaster's balance at the Bank.
They could also serve as the paymaster for a legion.
Common combinations with paymaster
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- paymaster general 5×
- paymaster of 2×
- shadow paymaster 2×
- as paymaster 2×
- paymaster william 2×
- the paymaster 2×