payrolled

Meanings

1. 1verbtransitive

   Put a worker on a company's official list of employees so that they are paid regularly through it.

   Grammar: Takes an object and is very often passive: the staff were payrolled by the agency.

   Patterns

   • payroll someone
   • be payrolled by someone
   • be payrolled through something

   The contractor payrolled all the temporary staff rather than hiring them directly.

   She is payrolled by the agency but works full-time in our office.

   Once you are payrolled, tax is taken out of your wages automatically.

2. 2verbtransitivebusiness

   Include a cost or payment in a company's regular wage system.

   Grammar: Used about money or benefits, not people: the bonus was payrolled last month.

   Patterns

   • payroll a payment
   • be payrolled with something

   The annual bonus was payrolled together with the December salary.

   Overtime is payrolled at the end of each quarter.

Word forms

Common combinations

be payrolled by a company

All the drivers are payrolled by the same logistics firm.

payrolled staff

Payrolled staff receive their wages directly from head office.

payrolled through an agency

Many nurses are payrolled through an agency rather than the hospital.

Synonyms and how they differ

employed

More general and focuses on having a job; payrolled stresses that wages go through a company's payroll system.

hired

Focuses on the moment of taking someone on; payrolled focuses on how they are paid afterwards.

Word family

payroll noun

The list of employees and the total money paid to them.

payroll tax noun

A tax an employer pays based on the wages it pays out.

Commonly confused: payrolled or paroled?

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