词汇 | paymaster |
释义 | paymaster noun[ C ] uk /ˈpeɪˌmɑː.stər/ us /ˈpeɪˌmæs.tɚ/ a person or an organization that pays for something to happen and therefore has or expects to have some control over it: (利用金钱进行操控的)操纵者,后台老板 The government accused the opposition parties of being controlled by trade union paymasters.政府指控反对党受到了工会的出资赞助人的控制。 a person whose job is to pay wages or salaries in certain organizations在某些机构中负责支付薪水(或工资)的人 People in charge of or controlling other people acephalous administrator anti-management authority bureaucrat controller council counter-power dean deputy manipulator mistress movers and shakers multi-headed officer tsar vice presidency vice president vicegerency vicegerent paymaster | Business Englishpaymaster noun[ C ] FINANCEuk /ˈpeɪˌmɑːstər/ us /ˈpeɪˌmæstər/ a person or an organization that pays for something, and has or expects to have some control over it: Germany is the chief paymaster of the EU's 100 billion budget. a person or an organization that is in charge of paying people the money they have earned: All UN agencies are required to pay their local staff through a government paymaster. Examples of paymasterpaymaster There are other ways of temporally decoupling reciprocal obligations of welfare recipients and their paymasters. Understandably, the language of such a performance is unintelligible to most foreign tourists - the new paymasters of this art. The notion that research might be independent or, even better, dependent on reality, was simply not part of their paymasters' thinking. 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. 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. From Europarl 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. From Europarl 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are sergeant-majors promoted to the rank of assistant-paymasters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are its paymasters and, to a large extent, it will do what it is told. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At that time he was trying to impress his foreign paymasters with the extent of his deflationary measures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Paymasters' offices are distributed all over the country and are not in one central bureau. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is normally a large number of paymasters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They may, no doubt, reject a certain number of films, but they have to keep in with their paymasters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was rarely a settlement as a result of the negotiations between the teachers, the local authorities and the paymasters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They look with confidence, as did the eighteenth century landlords, because they are the paymasters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of paymaster These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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