Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pay-roll; specifically (military), the quarterly account rendered to the war-office by a paymaster.
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Examples
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If they really believe that the earthquakes are un-predictable, then please let them study seismic activity on a hobby level, and take them off the pay-list.
Earthquake Warning Was Removed From Internet - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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"I could tell you roughly by the pay-list," the manager answered.
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Many of them were at work in large factories, where it was the custom of the house to give a roasted turkey and a pan of cranberry sauce to each person who had been on the pay-list for three months.
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"I could tell you roughly by the pay-list," the manager answered.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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A Bombay pay-list of January, 1716, shows us the official salaries at that time.
The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago 1880
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You had some troops in Italy, and in the empire two regiments only of hussars which were not on its pay-list; England and
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830
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Couple of interesting points are in the method of Sniper training and methodology which differ from ours (albeit, the art, at its heart, is very much as it is for us today), and also the fact of the Wermacht keeping wounded and limbless soldiers on the pay-list to pass on their knowledge and do other tasks, which has come up for discussion on here repeatedly.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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