paymastern.

Brit.

/ˈpeɪˌmɑːstə/,

/ˈpeɪˌmastə/, U.S.

/ˈpeɪˌmæstər/

Forms: see pay n. and master n.¹ and adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pay n., master n.¹

Etymology: < pay n. + master n.¹ Compare Middle Dutch paeymeester , paymeister (Dutch †paaimeester ; now betaalmeester (compare battel n.)).

a. An official (esp. an officer in the armed forces) responsible for dispensing pay, settling debts, etc. Also figurative.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > paying (money) for labour or service > [noun] > paymaster or paymistress

paymaster1537

paymistress1583

pagador1591

pay1878

paybob1916

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > paymaster

paymaster1537

bakhshi1615

1537 J. Whalley Let. 14 May in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/14/31) f. 38 From dover the xiiij^th day of may wth thand of..John Whalley pay maister of the Kinges workes at dover.

a1550 Vox Pop. Vox Dei 719 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 293 Payemasters suche as bythe With Trappes your golden smythe.

1615 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. III. O.T. x. 244 Both good and euill are sure paymasters at the last.

1643 E. Bowles Plaine Eng. 24 Let the Parliament..appoint pay-masters to every Regiment.

1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 15 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) Six Pence per Corfe,..which is Deducted..by the Steward or Pay-Master.

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. vi. 73 If he comes to deal with the same..tradesman again, he is treated like one that is but an indifferent paymaster.

1801 G. Yonge in G. M. Theal Rec. Cape Colony (1898) III. 376 There was an Old Establishment for the Botanical Garden of 500 R.D. p. annum payable by the Civil Paymaster.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §1. 218 Edward [III] became the paymaster of the poorer princes of Germany.

1942 Punch 12 Aug. 127/1 An old envelope bearing the regimental Paymaster's stamp.

2003 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 26 Sept. b9 She worked as paymaster for the Collins Company and later became the Credit Union Manager for the Metropolitan District Commission.

b. Navy. An officer responsible for keeping a ship's accounts and for overseeing the supply and distribution of provisions and stores.In the Royal Navy (1852) and the U.S. Navy (1860), paymaster replaced purser as the official title of such officers. The Royal Navy ceased to use the term in 1944.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > sailors with other specific duties on ship

sounder1575

carpenter1626

marshal1626

mastman1649

master of voyage1771

tierer1825

legger1831

call boy1835

bellboy1851

paymaster1852

snubber1853

leadsman1857

lamps1866

berther1867

bailer1883

waistboater1891

tanky1909

planesman1945

1852 Order in Council Apr. 5 Paymasters and Pursers to be designated Paymasters of the Navy.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Victualling-note, an order given to a seaman in the Royal navy by the paymaster, when he joins a ship, which is handed to the ship's steward as his authority for victualling the man.

1878 Detroit Free Press 12 Jan. (Suppl.) 2/4 Forward, on the gun-deck, the Paymaster's Steward, and his assistant, the Jack of the Dust, were serving out small stores.

1884 Naval Encycl. 670/1 In 1860 it was enacted ‘that pursers in the navy of the United States shall be hereafter styled “paymasters”.’ Why the old time-honoured title was discontinued for a longer one, expressive of only a portion of this officer's duties, it is difficult to imagine.

1943 ‘C. S. Forester’ Ship 12 ‘I want those mess traps brought back,’ said the Paymaster Commander sharply, ‘don't leave them sculling about on the decks.’

2002 Redcliffe & Bayside Herald (Queensland) (Nexis) 20 Nov. Bill was born in Aberdeenshire in Scotland in 1911 and achieved the commissioned rank of paymaster in the navy.

†2. Scottish. A person made responsible for discharging a debt or refunding a loss to another. Obsolete.

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1608 Inverurie Burgh Court 9 May in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1983) V. 369/2 The said George is fund to be peymaister to Normond Leslie of the said lamb or pryce thairof.

1666 Processes Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court No. 3 Wherof his maister granted him ane discharge for both at his own sight when he becam my paymester and did give me his discharge in keping untill I should be satisfied of the wholl four scor markes.

1688 Corshill Baron-Court Bk. in Archæol. & Hist. Coll. Ayr & Wigton (1884) IV. 179 Quhether or not he took the defenderis father..paymaster for what goodis shee receaved. Persuer upon oath declaires shee only became paymaster herself.

3. Chiefly depreciative. A person, organization, etc., requiring service or loyalty in return for (esp. previously given) pay.

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1650 E. Llewellin Divine Medit. 25 O my soule, consider this in profound and serious meditation, and enter not into the service of sinne, to have the Devill thy pay-master.

1791 T. Paine Rights of Man iv The Nation is the paymaster of everything, and everything must conform to its general will.

1840 Times 30 May 5/5 Mr. Horsman, had he possessed common decency, would have studiously refrained from every public manifestation of his miserable partisanship. But the gentleman's zeal for his paymasters got the better of his discretion.

1865 H. Martineau Hist. Peace II. ii. i. 263 He stimulated the purposes of the conspirators, and received their confidence, in order to betray them, day by day, to his paymasters.

1975 Economist (Nexis) 22 Mar. 56 Zambia's president, Mr Kenneth Kaunda, has suggested that ‘imperialist paymasters’ were behind the plot.

1993 Harper's Mag. July 69/2 They produced for their new paymasters at the Pentagon updated images of orbiting missile platforms.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	paymaster
释义	paymastern. Brit. /ˈpeɪˌmɑːstə/, /ˈpeɪˌmastə/, U.S. /ˈpeɪˌmæstər/ Forms: see pay n. and master n.¹ and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pay n., master n.¹ Etymology: < pay n. + master n.¹ Compare Middle Dutch paeymeester , paymeister (Dutch †paaimeester ; now betaalmeester (compare battel n.)). 1. a. An official (esp. an officer in the armed forces) responsible for dispensing pay, settling debts, etc. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > paying (money) for labour or service > [noun] > paymaster or paymistress paymaster1537 paymistress1583 pagador1591 pay1878 paybob1916 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > paymaster paymaster1537 bakhshi1615 1537 J. Whalley Let. 14 May in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/14/31) f. 38 From dover the xiiij^th day of may wth thand of..John Whalley pay maister of the Kinges workes at dover. a1550 Vox Pop. Vox Dei 719 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 293 Payemasters suche as bythe With Trappes your golden smythe. 1615 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. III. O.T. x. 244 Both good and euill are sure paymasters at the last. 1643 E. Bowles Plaine Eng. 24 Let the Parliament..appoint pay-masters to every Regiment. 1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 15 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) Six Pence per Corfe,..which is Deducted..by the Steward or Pay-Master. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. vi. 73 If he comes to deal with the same..tradesman again, he is treated like one that is but an indifferent paymaster. 1801 G. Yonge in G. M. Theal Rec. Cape Colony (1898) III. 376 There was an Old Establishment for the Botanical Garden of 500 R.D. p. annum payable by the Civil Paymaster. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §1. 218 Edward [III] became the paymaster of the poorer princes of Germany. 1942 Punch 12 Aug. 127/1 An old envelope bearing the regimental Paymaster's stamp. 2003 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 26 Sept. b9 She worked as paymaster for the Collins Company and later became the Credit Union Manager for the Metropolitan District Commission. b. Navy. An officer responsible for keeping a ship's accounts and for overseeing the supply and distribution of provisions and stores.In the Royal Navy (1852) and the U.S. Navy (1860), paymaster replaced purser as the official title of such officers. The Royal Navy ceased to use the term in 1944. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > sailors with other specific duties on ship sounder1575 carpenter1626 marshal1626 mastman1649 master of voyage1771 tierer1825 legger1831 call boy1835 bellboy1851 paymaster1852 snubber1853 leadsman1857 lamps1866 berther1867 bailer1883 waistboater1891 tanky1909 planesman1945 1852 Order in Council Apr. 5 Paymasters and Pursers to be designated Paymasters of the Navy. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Victualling-note, an order given to a seaman in the Royal navy by the paymaster, when he joins a ship, which is handed to the ship's steward as his authority for victualling the man. 1878 Detroit Free Press 12 Jan. (Suppl.) 2/4 Forward, on the gun-deck, the Paymaster's Steward, and his assistant, the Jack of the Dust, were serving out small stores. 1884 Naval Encycl. 670/1 In 1860 it was enacted ‘that pursers in the navy of the United States shall be hereafter styled “paymasters”.’ Why the old time-honoured title was discontinued for a longer one, expressive of only a portion of this officer's duties, it is difficult to imagine. 1943 ‘C. S. Forester’ Ship 12 ‘I want those mess traps brought back,’ said the Paymaster Commander sharply, ‘don't leave them sculling about on the decks.’ 2002 Redcliffe & Bayside Herald (Queensland) (Nexis) 20 Nov. Bill was born in Aberdeenshire in Scotland in 1911 and achieved the commissioned rank of paymaster in the navy. †2. Scottish. A person made responsible for discharging a debt or refunding a loss to another. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1608 Inverurie Burgh Court 9 May in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1983) V. 369/2 The said George is fund to be peymaister to Normond Leslie of the said lamb or pryce thairof. 1666 Processes Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court No. 3 Wherof his maister granted him ane discharge for both at his own sight when he becam my paymester and did give me his discharge in keping untill I should be satisfied of the wholl four scor markes. 1688 Corshill Baron-Court Bk. in Archæol. & Hist. Coll. Ayr & Wigton (1884) IV. 179 Quhether or not he took the defenderis father..paymaster for what goodis shee receaved. Persuer upon oath declaires shee only became paymaster herself. 3. Chiefly depreciative. A person, organization, etc., requiring service or loyalty in return for (esp. previously given) pay. ΚΠ 1650 E. Llewellin Divine Medit. 25 O my soule, consider this in profound and serious meditation, and enter not into the service of sinne, to have the Devill thy pay-master. 1791 T. Paine Rights of Man iv The Nation is the paymaster of everything, and everything must conform to its general will. 1840 Times 30 May 5/5 Mr. Horsman, had he possessed common decency, would have studiously refrained from every public manifestation of his miserable partisanship. But the gentleman's zeal for his paymasters got the better of his discretion. 1865 H. Martineau Hist. Peace II. ii. i. 263 He stimulated the purposes of the conspirators, and received their confidence, in order to betray them, day by day, to his paymasters. 1975 Economist (Nexis) 22 Mar. 56 Zambia's president, Mr Kenneth Kaunda, has suggested that ‘imperialist paymasters’ were behind the plot. 1993 Harper's Mag. July 69/2 They produced for their new paymasters at the Pentagon updated images of orbiting missile platforms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1537
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