Paymasters is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Paymasters meaning
plural of paymaster
Using Paymasters
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of paymaster
- In the example corpus, paymasters often appears in combinations such as: his paymasters, paymasters to, union paymasters.
Context around Paymasters
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Paymasters
- In this selection, "paymasters" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, union, foreign, former, wage, tell and unleashed stand out and add context to how "paymasters" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and foreign paymasters and and their paymasters unleashed mayhem. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "paymasters" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with paymasters
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Talk about a Happy Christmas for the union paymasters. (9 words)
Chilembo has been forced by his paymasters to make that statement. (11 words)
Previously, Paymasters had been able to draw on money from HM Treasury at their discretion. (15 words)
Shadow work and pensions secretary said: 'This Government chose to give well above pay rises to trade union paymasters when it came to wage settlements and chose to take this money away from some of the most vulnerable people in the country. (42 words)
Ugochinyere said the parties were worried, “that lawmakers and their paymasters unleashed mayhem on the state Assembly for the second time in less than two weeks without any arrest by the police and other relevant security agents in the state”. (40 words)
It had been the usual practise of previous paymasters to appropriate to themselves the interest of all money lying in their hands by way of advance, and also to accept a commission of 1/2% on all foreign subsidies. (39 words)
Example sentences (14)
Chilembo has been forced by his paymasters to make that statement.
He repeated the lie despite numerous pictures of Joe with Hunter, his partners and foreign paymasters.
It is also alleged that Prime Minister Kier Starmer's appeasement of union paymasters' wage rise demands could leave the UK with a £14billion bill, much of which taxpayers will foot.
Shadow work and pensions secretary said: 'This Government chose to give well above pay rises to trade union paymasters when it came to wage settlements and chose to take this money away from some of the most vulnerable people in the country.
Talk about a Happy Christmas for the union paymasters.
I advise ABS to learn to be a responsible citizen of Osun by desisting from lies that will neither profit him nor any of his paymasters.
The President being bad isn't (or at least, shouldn't be) the issue: the issue is the institutional power of capital, and how it's agents in the GOP enable criminality to enrich their paymasters.
And with his team in a strong position to dominate domestic football again, Bello is relishing the opportunity of meeting his former paymasters.
Trump splutters and tweets all sorts of nonsensical and contradictory messages, but at crunch time he duly rolls over and does exactly what his paymasters tell him.
Let me use this opportunity to remind the surrogate of the interdicted personalities that, the water he seeks to muddy will be given to his paymasters to drink Insha Allah when the time is due.
Ugochinyere said the parties were worried, “that lawmakers and their paymasters unleashed mayhem on the state Assembly for the second time in less than two weeks without any arrest by the police and other relevant security agents in the state”.
He received very little reward from his paymasters and of course no recognition for his services by the government.
It had been the usual practise of previous paymasters to appropriate to themselves the interest of all money lying in their hands by way of advance, and also to accept a commission of 1/2% on all foreign subsidies.
Previously, Paymasters had been able to draw on money from HM Treasury at their discretion.
Common combinations with paymasters
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his paymasters 5×
- paymasters to 3×
- union paymasters 2×
- their paymasters 2×