Payroll vs Current - What's the difference?
payroll | current |
A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
The total sum of money paid to employees.
(computing) The series of accounting transactions that ensure that employees are paid correctly, and that all taxes etc are properly deducted; the department in a company responsible for it.
(euphemistic) Bribes paid to people
To place on a payroll.
* 1985 , The Code of Federal regulations of the United States of America (page 37)
The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.
(electricity) The time rate of flow of electric charge.
:* Symbol': '''''I (inclined upper case letter "I")
:* Units:
:: SI: ampere (A)
:: CGS: esu/second (esu/s)
A tendency or a course of events.
Existing or occurring at the moment.
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
* Arbuthnot
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
* Gower
* Tennyson
As nouns the difference between payroll and current
is that payroll is a list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each while current is the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.As a verb payroll
is to place on a payroll.As an adjective current is
existing or occurring at the moment.payroll
English
Noun
(en noun)- 1957': ''I know that the deal started with the boys in Santiago, because they've been on the d'Anconia '''pay roll for centuries — well, no, 'pay roll' is an honorable word, it would be more exact to say that d'Anconia Copper has been paying them protection money for centuries — isn't that what your gangsters call it?'' - Francisco dAnconia, ''.
- 1972': ''We can spread a rumor this cop was dirty. Look, Tom, we have newspaper people on the '''payroll , don't we? - Michael Corleone, .
Verb
(en verb)- Grantees may elect to payroll the enrollees through their own payroll system if the payroll system is consistent with regulations contained herein.
Anagrams
*current
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction ): flow, stream * (time rate of flow of electric charge ): electric current * (tendency or course of events ): flow, stream, tendencyDerived terms
* undercurrentAdjective
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- That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- Like the current fire, that renneth / Upon a cord.
- To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.