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payrolls

noun

plural of payroll
as in inventories

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for payrolls
  1. inventories
  2. indexes
  3. directories
  4. agendas
  5. dockets
  6. rosters
  7. compilations
  8. enumerations
Noun
  • Hence, retail traders will gain a cheaper and more precise way to speculate on crude, but production, consumption, inventories and geopolitics will remain the dominant forces setting prices.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • As crude inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve drain toward their operational limits, America is left, armed with just 300 million barrels.
    — Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of inventories
Noun
  • Elevated yields, combined with surging oil prices, pushed down stocks, with all three major indexes down for a third straight day.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Costs are low and indexes are generally diversified, which makes maintenance easy, analysts said.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 31 Aug. 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
  • Spaces bleed and cross-pollinate, braiding the many overlapping narratives and curatorial agendas organizing this collection.
    — Katy Barkan, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Engelbert has presided over a period of impressive growth, no question, and the real problem rests with outsiders advancing their agendas and chasing their votes.
    — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of agendas
Noun
  • 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
  • The online dockets did not show plea or attorney information.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of dockets
Noun
  • After that, barring a surprising agreement between the league and the players’ association, the owners are expected to institute a lockout period in which teams are not permitted to have any contact with players on 40-man rosters.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Because Bubic is on the 60-day IL, the Dodgers will need to clear spots on the active and 40-man rosters to reinstate him.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of rosters
Noun
  • Those mistakes have been frequent enough to spawn entire YouTube compilations.
    — Janson Duench, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Many of the songs on this album are shared among other Parton projects — hits compilations and studio albums.
    — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 30 Aug. 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 16 Sep. 2026.

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