different between payroll vs current

English

Etymology

pay +? roll

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pe????l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pe??o?l/

Noun

payroll (plural payrolls)

1. A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
2. The total sum of money paid to employees.
3. (accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
4. (euphemistic) Bribes paid to people

Synonyms

• (list): paysheet

Related terms

• payslip
• payroll vote

Translations

Verb

payroll (third-person singular simple present payrolls, present participle payrolling, simple past and past participle payrolled)

1. (transitive) To place on a payroll.
   • 1985, The Code of Federal regulations of the United States of America (page 37)

     Grantees may elect to payroll the enrollees through their own payroll system if the payroll system is consistent with regulations contained herein.

Anagrams

• polarly

English

Etymology

From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere, present active infinitive of curr? (“I run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k???nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k???nt/, /?k???nt/
• (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)

Noun

current (countable and uncountable, plural currents)

1. The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
2. the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) short for ocean current.

   Synonyms: flow, stream

3. (electricity) the time rate of flow of electric charge.

   • Symbol: I (inclined upper case letter "I")
   • Units:

   SI: ampere (A)

   CGS: esu/second (esu/s)

   Synonym: electric current

4. a tendency or a course of events

   Synonyms: flow, stream, tendency

Derived terms

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Translations

Adjective

current (comparative currenter or more current, superlative currentest or most current)

1. existing or occurring at the moment

   Synonyms: present; see also Thesaurus:present

   Antonyms: future, past

2. generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations

     That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.

   Synonyms: fashionable, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date; see also Thesaurus:fashionable

   Antonyms: out-of-date, unfashionable; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable

3. (obsolete) running or moving rapidly

   • Lik to the corrant fyr that renneth
     Upon a corde

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.

   Synonym: speeding

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Curtner

Latin

Verb

current

1. third-person plural future active indicative of curr?