payroller

English

Etymology

From payroll +‎ -er.

Noun

payroller (plural payrollers)

1. Someone on a payroll; someone who earns a salary.
   • 1995 January 27, Michael Miner, “ABA Journal: Witness for the Defense/News Bites”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2006 December 15, Ben Joravsky, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Machines; One Way to Trip Up an Incumbent? Untie His Shoelace”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     Typically the person challenging the petitions is a city payroller who owes his job to the incumbent.

Anagrams

• perorally, preorally