How to Use paymaster in a Sentence

paymaster

noun
  • She worked as the company's paymaster for 22 years.
  • This felt a long way of her saying that her paymasters are not about to inhale ITV.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Despite having the combination, the paymaster couldn’t open the safe.
    — Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
  • But the gangs would multiply with support from political paymasters who wielded them as tools of oppression.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • As the state’s paymaster, Yee is tasked with carrying out the final details of spending taxpayer dollars.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
  • But beneath the calm is a town under tightfisted control, enforced by militias accountable only to their paymasters.
    — Max Fisher, Amanda Taub and Dalia MartÍnez, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2018
  • While that should be straightforward, mistrust is running high, and Del Vecchio is a difficult paymaster.
    — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2019
  • The young second lieutenant became a paymaster/finance officer.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The winner will spend the next four years working as the city’s auditor, chief accounting officer and paymaster, sending payment to contractors and cops alike.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The fireplace is all that remains of the paymaster's tollbooth of the old Bluestone Quarry of the early 20th century.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • After telling their paymasters in Shanghai how many balls and cones were required, Davidsen and the team's management compiled a list of players to boost the team’s performances and profile.
    — Tariq Panja, Bloomberg.com, 13 July 2017
  • One of the themes of those pieces was his discontent with a world in which artists were forced by their paymasters to churn out hits of diminishing quality, making records to appeal to algorithms rather than to satisfy their own artistic urges.
    — M.h., The Economist, 24 June 2019
  • The last Saturday of the month also features a train robbery right out of the Old West, with cowboy bandits on horseback taking over the train and relieving the paymaster of his banknotes.
    — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2017
  • His paymasters tend to be defence lawyers, the federal public defender, or European donors eager to expose America’s misuse of its death penalty.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Which turns the Silicon Valley experience on its head, with the Defense Department switching from paymaster to apprentice.
    — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Trump’s transactional, unreliable foreign policy impulses and his proclivity to bow to Iran’s paymaster, Putin, all reek of weakness.
    — Jared Moskowitz, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2024
  • A lot of the port’s ability to carry on during the economic downturn is attributable to the military, a reliable paymaster and one of San Antonio’s biggest employers.
    — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 12 June 2020
  • For all the drawbacks of the desert, Deadline can reveal that Desert Warrior’s delay has been caused by post-production issues, not least wrangling over the movie’s tone, pacing, and length between Wyatt and his paymasters.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Unlike other institutions designed to promote free inquiry, such as universities or some publications, think-tanks do not enjoy large endowments, researcher tenure or subscription revenue to insulate thinkers from paymasters.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • No more talk of proxy war, of how the strings of the terrorist groups known as Hamas and Hezbollah were being pulled by their Iranian paymasters, a reality widely contested by naive campus protesters not focusing on the bigger picture.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Yes, his alleged money-laundering schemes do not by themselves answer the question of whether Manafort was helping to manipulate an American presidential election on behalf of his Russian paymasters.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 31 Oct. 2017
  • While current financing from the EU budget is locked in until 2020, Poland’s dispute with the bloc’s main paymaster could have consequences when members begin to negotiate a new seven-year spending cycle.
    — Wojciech Moskwa, Bloomberg.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • According to the arrest report, per the outlets, Poor worked as the paymaster at Miami Back & Neck Specialists, an orthopedic clinic located on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami’s Bay Point neighborhood.
    — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 27 May 2026

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