Definition of "payroll" in English

noun

1. A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.

2. The total sum of money paid to employees.

3. (accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.

4. (euphemistic) Bribes paid to people.

verb

1. (transitive) To place on a payroll (noun, sense 1).