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  • n  a person in charge of paying wages

  • Perks from a "paymaster"Awash in cash, some executives of an oil company have been spending it in unusual ways: extravagant gifts, liquor, gambling money, home.
  • In the middle of the afternoon of April 15, 1920, a paymaster and guard were walking through the streets of another Massachusetts town, South Braintree, carrying some $5,000 to a .
  • Key lieutenants, like Abu Zubaydah, bin Laden's training-camp chief, and Mustafa Ahmed, the al-Qaeda paymaster, vanished in early September.
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  • Adam Price in ic Wales
    Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price said, "People are starting to see through the mask of Gordon Brown. They no longer see him as a hero but instead as the privatiser, pension swindler and the paymaster of the war in Iraq."
  • Ken Lewis in Telegraph.co.uk
    A BoA spokesman has said that Mr Lewis agreed to give up his pay as he felt "it was not in the best interests of BoA for him to get involved in a dispute with the paymaster".
  • Norman Baker in guardian.co.uk
    To be fair, Norman Baker asked Dawn Primarolo about it more than four years ago: "Does the paymaster general accept that ordinary, decent, hard-working people in my constituency who pay their taxes in full find it a little rum that a few...

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