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payrolls

noun

plural of payroll
as in inventories

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  1. inventories
  2. indexes
  3. directories
  4. agendas
  5. dockets
  6. rosters
  7. compilations
  8. enumerations
Noun
  • Emergency inventories, meanwhile, have reached dangerously low levels and have not been replenished.
    — RICHARD HAASS, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Blanch estimates at least 350 million barrels have disappeared from the global above-ground oil inventories since levels peaked in March.
    — Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of inventories
Noun
  • Earlier this month, experts told CNBC that India's economic growth story was not reflected in the country's key stock benchmarks, as many companies in emerging sectors are represented in the mid-cap and small-cap indexes and not the Nifty 50.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Moving into the following week, the heat is expected to let up, with maximum indices in the low 90s.
    — Ruby Grisin, Louisville Courier Journal, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of indexes
Noun
  • Establish your practice’s Google Business Profile, and maintain consistent information across relevant directories.
    — Ajay Prasad, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Other states may have different rules covering association directories and member records.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of directories
Noun
  • Today chaos gives bad people the opportunity to advance their own nefarious agendas with little regards for the American people.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The best agendas include a few non-serious questions too, maybe even a joke.
    — Leslie John, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of agendas
Noun
  • But court dockets say there’s still an open domestic violence restraining order against him, first taken out by his wife on June 12, 2025.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The federal government has transferred many detainees to some of the nation’s largest detention facilities in Louisiana and Mississippi, complicating their legal representation and crowding the dockets in those states.
    — Carla Astudillo, ProPublica, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of dockets
Noun
  • Since then, the City Section established a rule that teams must exchange rosters before games to verify that players are eligible.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The game is played at a faster pace in comparison, and rosters are often in flux because of NBA call-ups and two-way players who go back and forth between the two leagues.
    — Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of rosters
Noun
  • The duo contributed to various underground compilations and festivals such as NorCal NoiseFest.
    — Susan Young, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Those mistakes have been frequent enough to spawn entire YouTube compilations.
    — Janson Duench, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of compilations
Noun
  • The drafts were messy, but, in reality, so, too, were the handwritten ones—their own version of chaos with arrows, enumerations, and strikethroughs.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Definition of enumerations
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“Payrolls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/payrolls. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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