How to Use paymaster in a Sentence
paymaster
noun- She worked as the company's paymaster for 22 years.
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The fireplace is all that remains of the paymaster's tollbooth of the old Bluestone Quarry of the early 20th century.
—Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 30 Jan. 2018
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Despite having the combination, the paymaster couldn’t open the safe.
—Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
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The last Saturday of the month also features a train robbery right out of the Old West, with cowboy bandits on horseback taking over the train and relieving the paymaster of his banknotes.
—Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2017
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After telling their paymasters in Shanghai how many balls and cones were required, Davidsen and the team's management compiled a list of players to boost the team’s performances and profile.
—Tariq Panja, Bloomberg.com, 13 July 2017
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While that should be straightforward, mistrust is running high, and Del Vecchio is a difficult paymaster.
—Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2019
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One of the themes of those pieces was his discontent with a world in which artists were forced by their paymasters to churn out hits of diminishing quality, making records to appeal to algorithms rather than to satisfy their own artistic urges.
—M.h., The Economist, 24 June 2019
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But beneath the calm is a town under tightfisted control, enforced by militias accountable only to their paymasters.
—Max Fisher, Amanda Taub and Dalia MartÍnez, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2018
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There are armies of corporate lobbyists in D.C., working full-time to find and exploit opportunities to roll back rules that inconvenience their paymasters.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Apr. 2018
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While current financing from the EU budget is locked in until 2020, Poland’s dispute with the bloc’s main paymaster could have consequences when members begin to negotiate a new seven-year spending cycle.
—Wojciech Moskwa, Bloomberg.com, 11 Sep. 2017
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Which turns the Silicon Valley experience on its head, with the Defense Department switching from paymaster to apprentice.
—Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 13 Dec. 2019
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His paymasters tend to be defence lawyers, the federal public defender, or European donors eager to expose America’s misuse of its death penalty.
—The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
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Yes, his alleged money-laundering schemes do not by themselves answer the question of whether Manafort was helping to manipulate an American presidential election on behalf of his Russian paymasters.
—Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 31 Oct. 2017
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Unlike other institutions designed to promote free inquiry, such as universities or some publications, think-tanks do not enjoy large endowments, researcher tenure or subscription revenue to insulate thinkers from paymasters.
—The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
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