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单词 paymaster
释义
paymaster
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpeɪˌmɑː.stər/us
/ˈpeɪˌmæs.tɚ/
apersonor anorganizationthatpaysfor something tohappenandthereforehas orexpectsto have somecontrolover it:
（利用金钱进行操控的）操纵者，后台老板
Thegovernmentaccusedtheoppositionpartiesof beingcontrolledbytradeunionpaymasters.政府指控反对党受到了工会的出资赞助人的控制。
apersonwhosejobis topaywagesorsalariesincertainorganizations
在某些机构中负责支付薪水（或工资）的人
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
People in charge of or controlling other people
  • acephalous
  • administrator
  • anti-management
  • authority
  • bureaucrat
  • conservator
  • controller
  • council
  • counter-power
  • dean
  • lord
  • management
  • manipulator
  • mistress
  • too many chiefs and not enough Indiansidiom
  • top dog
  • troika
  • tsar
  • vice president
  • yourlord and masteridiom
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(Definition ofpaymasterfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

paymaster| Business English

paymaster
noun[C]
FINANCE
uk
/ˈpeɪˌmɑːstər/us
/ˈpeɪˌmæstər/
apersonor anorganizationthatpaysfor something, and has orexpectsto have somecontrolover it:
Germany is thechiefpaymasterof the EU's 100billionbudget.
apersonor anorganizationthat is inchargeofpayingpeoplethemoneythey haveearned:
All UNagenciesarerequiredtopaytheirlocalstaffthrough agovernmentpaymaster.
(Definition ofpaymasterfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpaymaster

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There are other ways of temporally decoupling reciprocal obligations of welfare recipients and their paymasters.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Understandably, the language of such a performance is unintelligible to most foreign tourists - the new paymasters of this art.
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The notion that research might be independent or, even better, dependent on reality, was simply not part of their paymasters' thinking.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The situation was so out of control that a year after the war ended the troops were still on the paymaster's books because there was no money to pay them.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Their members and their paymasters must be brought to justice, and all their helpers in the administration and the armed forces must be summarily dismissed.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
In the future, we should be a powerful political actor, and we should not be content with a role in which we are just paymasters dealing with post-war destruction.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Due consideration has been given to all the circumstances relating to the employment of acting-paymasters, and the terms on which they were engaged.
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There are sergeant-majors promoted to the rank of assistant-paymasters.
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They are its paymasters and, to a large extent, it will do what it is told.
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At that time he was trying to impress his foreign paymasters with the extent of his deflationary measures.
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Paymasters' offices are distributed all over the country and are not in one central bureau.
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There is normally a large number of paymasters.
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They may, no doubt, reject a certain number of films, but they have to keep in with their paymasters.
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There was rarely a settlement as a result of the negotiations between the teachers, the local authorities and the paymasters.
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They look with confidence, as did the eighteenth century landlords, because they are the paymasters.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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