paymaster
noun
pay·mas·ter
ˈpā-ˌma-stər 
: an officer or agent whose duty it is to pay salaries or wages
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She worked as the company's paymaster for 22 years.
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There is no consensus on the government side, and some agencies charged with cyber defense are more closely aligned with big tech than their paymasters.
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Zak Doffman, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
John Diefenbaker, who was Prime Minister in the fifties and sixties, was of the same largely western Canada kind that emphasizes a suspicion of the Ottawa élite and their Toronto (and Montreal) paymasters.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
No more talk of proxy war, of how the strings of the terrorist groups known as Hamas and Hezbollah were being pulled by their Iranian paymasters, a reality widely contested by naive campus protesters not focusing on the bigger picture.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 5 Oct. 2024
But Houthi predation could be curtailed dramatically if America and its allies move to a policy of extended attribution, whereby Houthi actions have consequences not only for the Yemeni terror group itself but for its paymasters in Tehran as well.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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Zak Doffman, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
John Diefenbaker, who was Prime Minister in the fifties and sixties, was of the same largely western Canada kind that emphasizes a suspicion of the Ottawa élite and their Toronto (and Montreal) paymasters.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
No more talk of proxy war, of how the strings of the terrorist groups known as Hamas and Hezbollah were being pulled by their Iranian paymasters, a reality widely contested by naive campus protesters not focusing on the bigger picture.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 5 Oct. 2024
But Houthi predation could be curtailed dramatically if America and its allies move to a policy of extended attribution, whereby Houthi actions have consequences not only for the Yemeni terror group itself but for its paymasters in Tehran as well.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Paymaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paymaster. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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paymaster
noun
pay·mas·ter
-ˌmas-tər
: an officer or agent of an employer whose duty it is to pay salaries or wages
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