0 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.
1 a person or an organization that pays for something, and has or expects to have some control over it:
2 a person or an organization that is in charge of paying people the money they have earned:
There are other ways of temporally decoupling reciprocal obligations of welfare recipients and their paymasters.
Understandably, the language of such a performance is unintelligible to most foreign tourists - the new paymasters of this art.
The notion that research might be independent or, even better, dependent on reality, was simply not part of their paymasters' thinking.
The situation was so out of control that a year after the war ended the troops were still on the paymaster's books because there was no money to pay them.
Their members and their paymasters must be brought to justice, and all their helpers in the administration and the armed forces must be summarily dismissed.
In the future, we should be a powerful political actor, and we should not be content with a role in which we are just paymasters dealing with post-war destruction.
Due consideration has been given to all the circumstances relating to the employment of acting-paymasters, and the terms on which they were engaged.
There are sergeant-majors promoted to the rank of assistant-paymasters.
