paymasternoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpeɪˌmɑː.stər/us/ˈpeɪˌmæs.tɚ/a person or an organization that pays for something to happen and therefore has or expects to have some control over it:
The government accused the opposition parties of being controlled by trade union paymasters.
a person whose job is to pay wages or salaries in certain organizations
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
People in charge of or controlling other people
- administrator
- authority
- bureaucrat
- chairman
- chairperson
- force
- giant
- Goliath
- guiding spirit
- headman
- helicopter parent
- hierarchy
- leader
- marshal
- on high idiom
- operator
- overlord
- pillar
- powerhouse
- presidency
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