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Picture the long list a company keeps of everyone it pays — name after name, with an amount beside each one. Your name being on that list is what makes you an employee. From the list itself, the word slides to the job of working through it every month, and to the total at the bottom of the column.
可以想成：公司手上一張長長的名單，一個名字接著一個名字，每個名字旁邊寫著一個金額——這就是要發薪水的人。名字在不在那…更多收起
可以想成：公司手上一張長長的名單，一個名字接著一個名字，每個名字旁邊寫著一個金額——這就是要發薪水的人。名字在不在那張單子上，決定你是不是這家公司的人。從「那張單子」出發，這個字往兩邊滑：一邊是每個月把單子跑完的那份工作，一邊是單子底下加總出來的那個數字。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
payrollnoun/ˈpeɪˌɹəʊl/
- 1
A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
- Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.
- 2
The total sum of money paid to employees.
- 3
accountingbusinessfinanceThe calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
- 4
Bribes paid to people.
- I know that the deal started with the boys in Santiago, because they’ve been on the d’Anconia pay roll for centuries — well, no, ‘pay roll’ is an honorable word, it would be more exact to say that d’Anconia Copper has been paying them protection money for centuries — isn't that what your gangsters call it?
- We can spread a rumor this cop was dirty. Look, Tom, we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we?
payrollverb/ˈpeɪˌɹəʊl/
- 1
To place on a payroll (noun sense 1).
- Grantees may elect to payroll the enrollees through their own payroll system if the payroll system is consistent with regulations contained herein.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。