[ noun ] a person in charge of paying wages <noun.person>
Paymaster \Pay"mas`ter\, n. One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.
Purser \Purs"er\, n. [See {Purse}, and cf. {Bursar}.] 1. (Naut.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called {paymaster}.
2. A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.
3. Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier.
{Purser's name} (Naut.), a false name. [Slang]
The paymaster general, David Heathcote Amery MP, told the conference: 'Cash control within departments should be as rigourous as ever.
A Navy officer who could face the death penalty goes on military trial Wednesday on charges he fatally shot a ship paymaster and stole the $94,000 payroll.
This is one of those highly significant events.' Mr Clarke was referring to the government's determination, repeated by the paymaster general last week, to introduce resource-based accrual accounting in all its departments by 1998.
The body of paymaster Lt.
VALUE ADDED TAX on domestic fuel bills at 8 per cent would raise an estimated Pounds 930m in 1994-95, the first year planned for the new tax, said Sir John Cope, the paymaster general, last night.
Hall said Yildirim participated in the copying of the documents and acted as the Army man's courier and paymaster until last January, the affidavit said.
Rafsanjani had risked a clash with the legislature by dropping anti-Western Interior Minister Mohtashemi, a former paymaster of Hezbollah, the Lebanese fundamentalists who are believed to control the kidnappers.