pay office

noun

The office or department in charge of payments to troops, employees, etc.

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Meanings

nounpay office (plural pay offices)

plural pay offices

  1. The office or department in charge of payments to troops, employees, etc.
    1 more example

    Not adverting to what I have just observed, I cannot help conceiving that gentlemen mislead themselves, by assimilating the navy pay office, in a great degree, to the army pay office, and supposing that, in all respects, the one has been regulated, or can be regulated, by the principles of the other.

    1805, Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates - Volume 5, page 262

Translations

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