Noun payroll has 3 senses
  1. payroll, paysheet - a list of employees and their salaries; "the company had a long payroll"
    --1 is a kind of register
    --1 has parts: wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary
  2. payroll, paysheet - the total amount of money paid in wages; "the company had a large payroll"
    --2 is a kind of sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money
  3. payroll, payroll department - the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee
    --3 is a kind of department, section
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