paymaster
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT A paymaster is a person or organization that pays and therefore controls another person or organization. 幕后老板[oft with poss]
...the ruling party's paymasters in business and banking. ...執(zhí)政黨的商業(yè)及銀行業(yè)后臺老板。
2. N-COUNT A paymaster is an official in the armed forces who is responsible for the payment of wages and salaries. (軍隊中發(fā)薪的)出納[軍事]
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paymaster /?pe??mɑ?st?/ (paymasters)
劍橋詞典
- a person or an organization that pays for something to happen and therefore has or expects to have some control over it
（利用金錢進行操控的）操縱者，后臺老板
The government accused the opposition parties of being controlled by trade union paymasters. 政府指控反對黨受到了工會的出資贊助人的控制。
a person whose job is to pay wages or salaries in certain organizations
在某些機構(gòu)中負責(zé)支付薪水（或工資）的人 返回 paymaster