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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of payroll.

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Examples

  • It shows naive bank directors in the database field, la less naive and therefore unscrupulous payrolled computer whiz who has a little embezzlement scheme going on within the bank and a savvy bank security chief who is not at all sure about Bennett being given free rein to test the system's defences.

    [bird of prey] richard griffiths and early computers 2008

  • Cartoon Network has payrolled through Axium like forever.

    Axium Payroll Services Implodes Steve Hulett 2008

  • It shows naive bank directors in the database field, la less naive and therefore unscrupulous payrolled computer whiz who has a little embezzlement scheme going on within the bank and a savvy bank security chief who is not at all sure about Bennett being given free rein to test the system's defences.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • You wouldn't find former 'por puesto' driver, Foreign Minister (MRE), Nicolas Maduro dead in a microbus these days and, as for his wife, National Assembly (Congress) speaker, Celia Flores, one could easily imagine that nothing less than a private jet from the Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) fleet would need to be on standby to take her and her payrolled family of congressional employees on weekenders to Miami shopping malls.

    Venezuela has simply become a mirror image of what went before ... corruption and malfeasance is at an all-time high! 2008

  • That is, still payrolled at Feature Animation, but working for Pixar.

    Why Pixar Won't Soon Go Union (Probably) Steve Hulett 2007

  • Since he was a life model who, when dressed and in his heyday, personified camp, Crisp's account of art students' style rings true as does that of dwindling drawing skills and an ambition shrunk from Michelangelo Muse to payrolled poseur.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • The Marlins, who were once part of a three-team transaction where former Montreal Expos owner basically gave up his team to MLB in exchange for buying the Florida franchise, have consistently been one of the lowest-payrolled teams this decade. great reporting over at the Biz of Baseball, Maury Brown points out all the parts of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that the Marlins may be infringing upon.

    The Crawfish Boxes 2010

  • (As it (historically) pertained to large printed journalism periodicals, there can be no comparison to the days of cumbersome, heavily overhead and payrolled newspapers).

    unknown title 2009

  • I'm all for free speech when it isn't abused by obvious losers, FSB payrolled or not, that have as their sole purpose shutting down intelligent discussion.

    La Russophobe 2009

  • But the new owners, India's Tata Motors (or, perhaps, the last wave of Ford-payrolled engineers) upped the V-8 engine to a 5. 0-liter displacement, adding some 80 supercharged horses and imparting a significant dose of character reassignment to the already drool-worthy machine.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories 2009

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