Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A clerk who pays wages.
- noun A clerk to a paymaster in the United States army or navy.
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Examples
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As for you, you have only eyes for the public pay-clerk, and you see nothing.
The Wasps 2000
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No pay-clerk lost his salary, though his labour was diminished by one-fifth; no check-clerk was dismissed, though there were twenty per cent. fewer to check; no steward or under-steward was displaced.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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As for you, you have only eyes for the public pay-clerk, and you see nothing.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Even now I am ready to let you have all you want, provided you no longer let yourself be suckled by the pay-clerk.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Board of Works, when asked to explain why it was that a fortnight's wages was due to M'Kennedy, said, that the money was sent to the wrong pay-clerk.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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A warrant pay-clerk may go up to be junior paymaster, where he will rank with an ensign.
The U-boat hunters 1912
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"Will an order on the railroad pay-clerk satisfy you?"
Prescott of Saskatchewan Harold Bindloss 1905
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It was a common saying among sailors, that when the pay-clerk went on board ships to pay prize-money, he clambered with his money-bags into the main-top and showered down the money at random; all which remained upon the splinter-netting (a coarse rope netting spread as a kind of awning) was for the men, and all that went through for the officers.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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"You can check it and afterwards hand the pay-clerk
Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905
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"The pay-clerk wouldn't take it, because he said it would mix up his accounts.
Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905
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