payroll
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“To violate the payroll system they have, it’s a serious offense. The owners are the ones that have pushed for these cost controls and they have to live up to them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Officials warn in the documents that the center "could be unable to make payroll or pay routine maintenance contracts" within weeks, the Post reported.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Rather than flattening payroll disparities, however, the gap between high-spending teams and small-market clubs has created a gaping chasm over the past three decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Last week’s payroll numbers were stronger than expected, confirming markets’ hawkish bias for the upcoming Fed meeting,” ING senior rates strategists Benjamin Schroeder and Michiel Tukker say in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
She needed to write two checks, one for cash and the other to move money into the company’s payroll account.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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While the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9%, the number of vacancies and employees on payrolls fell in recent months.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
American employers added 162,000 workers to payrolls in August, roughly three times the number that economists had forecast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The comments come as investors prepare for the release of US non-farm payrolls figures later Friday, and the consumer price index next week -- which are seen as crucial to what the Fed announces.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
“Today’s U.S. payrolls could tip the scale for the September Fed meeting,” he said in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
We had enormous orders and little money, and had great difficulty to meet our payrolls and buy supplies.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
Vocabulary lists containing payroll
This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for October 22–October 28, 2022
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Government and the Economy, Sections 3–5
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Century 21 Accounting, 9e, Chapters 11-14
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