How to Use paymaster in a Sentence

paymaster

noun

• She worked as the company's paymaster for 22 years.
• 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
• Despite having the combination, the paymaster couldn’t open the safe.
  — Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• While that should be straightforward, mistrust is running high, and Del Vecchio is a difficult paymaster.
  — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024