Payroll vs Wage - What's the difference?
payroll | wage |
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)
An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.
To wager, bet.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thy enemies.
:(Hakluyt)
To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:too weak to wage an instant trial with the king
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:to wake and wage a danger profitless
To employ for wages; to hire.
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*:Thenne said Arthur I wille goo with yow / Nay said the kynges ye shalle not at this tyme / for ye haue moche to doo yet in these landes / therfore we wille departe / and with the grete goodes that we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce
*(Raphael Holinshed) (1529-1580)
*:abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers
(label) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:[He pondered] which of all his sons was fit / To reign and wage immortal war with wit.
*(Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)
*:The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.
(label) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Thoumust wage thy works for wealth.
To give security for the performance of.
:(Burrill)
In transitive terms the difference between payroll and wage
is that payroll is to place on a payroll while wage is to adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.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.