payroller en · NOUN
Etymology
From payroll + -er.
Meanings
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Someone on a payroll; someone who earns a salary.
Typically the person challenging the petitions is a city payroller who owes his job to the incumbent.
2006 December 15, Ben Joravsky, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Machines; One Way to Trip Up an Incumbent? Untie His Shoelace”, in Chicago Reader:Seven pages later in the same paper: "Marie A. D'Amico covered her face and sobbed Thursday as she was sentenced to a year in prison for being a ghost payroller in three local government jobs.
1995 January 27, Michael Miner, “ABA Journal: Witness for the Defense/News Bites”, in Chicago Reader:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| payrollers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |