Definition of "payrolls" []

• Plural form of payroll. (noun)

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• "For jobs, the political resistance to putting the jobless on public payrolls is severe, hence Mr. Obama's proposal to increase infrastructure spending and Washington's flirtation with a payroll-tax holiday."
• "Public investment that directly puts people on payrolls is the only thing that will help."
• "If it means that the inflationary effect to the economy outstrips cost of living adjustments in payrolls, then many Canadians will simply be “greened” into unemployment and extreme poverty."