paymaster

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pay=mas=ter

CIDE DICTIONARY

paymaster, n. 

 One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

paymaster, n.
1 an official who pays troops, workmen, etc.
2 a person, organization, etc., to whom another owes duty or loyalty because of payment given.
3 (in full Paymaster General) Brit. the minister at the head of the Treasury department responsible for payments.

THESAURUS

paymaster

accountant, auditor, bookkeeper, bursar, cashier, cashkeeper, chamberlain, compensator, comptroller, controller, curator, defrayer, depositary, depository, financial officer, liquidator, payer, purse bearer, purser, ratepayer, receiver, recompenser, remunerator, steward, taxpayer, treasurer, trustee

ROGET THESAURUS

paymaster

Treasurer

N treasurer, bursar, bursary, purser, purse bearer, cash keeper, banker, depositary, questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller, cambist, money changer, financier, Secretary of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, minister of finance.