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nounpayroller (plural payrollers)
plural payrollers
- Someone on a payroll; someone who earns a salary.
Typically the person challenging the petitions is a city payroller who owes his job to the incumbent.
2006 December 15, Ben Joravsky, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Machines; One Way to Trip Up an Incumbent? Untie His Shoelace”, in Chicago Reader1 more example
Seven pages later in the same paper: "Marie A. D'Amico covered her face and sobbed Thursday as she was sentenced to a year in prison for being a ghost payroller in three local government jobs.
1995 January 27, Michael Miner, “ABA Journal: Witness for the Defense/News Bites”, in Chicago Reader
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APA
payroller. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/payroller
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“payroller.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/payroller. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “payroller,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/payroller.
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