paymaster

noun

1. 操纵者；后台老板
   a person or group of people that pays another person or organization and therefore can control their actions
2. （军队、工厂等的）工薪出纳员
   an official who pays the wages in the army, a factory, etc.

1. N-COUNT 出钱操纵者；后台老板
   A paymaster is a person or organization that pays and therefore controls another person or organization.
   1. ...the ruling party's paymasters in business and banking...
      执政党从事商业和银行业的后台老板
   2. As the main EU paymaster, Germany contributes £8 billion annually more than it gets back from Brussels.
      作为欧盟的大老板，德国每年要出资80亿英镑，比它从欧盟得到的要多。
2. （军队中发放工资、军饷的）出纳员
   A paymaster is an official in the armed forces who is responsible for the payment of wages and salaries.

1. As the main EU paymaster, Germany contributes £ 8 billion annually more than it gets back from Brussels.
   作为欧盟的大老板，德国每年要出资80亿英镑，比它从欧盟得到的要多。
2. But although Germany is the currency bloc's paymaster, pushing for a technical default won't help matters.
   尽管德国是欧元区的主力，但推动技术性违约并不能起到帮助。
3. Although funded, like its Arabic sister station, by the gas revenues of Qatar, it operates in the global Anglophone market and enjoys considerably more editorial freedom from its paymaster than telesur.
   与阿拉伯语姊妹电视台一样，半岛电视台英语频道的资金来自卡塔尔天然气收入，但该频道面向全球英语国家，并享有远比telesur更多的编辑自由。
4. As the union's biggest paymaster, Germany agreed to foot the lion's share of the bill.
   正是在德国的劝说下，法国才勉为其难地同意扩大欧盟俱乐部的范围。
5. He was forced hy his paymaster in the secret to keep quiet about these murders.
   他被秘密组织头头胁迫不得漏这些谋杀案件。
6. He was followed by an adjutant and the paymaster of the regiment.
   在地后面还走进了一个副官和团部的军需官。
7. Big business has traditionally been the paymaster of the conservative party.
   传统上大公司一直是保守党的衣食父母。
8. Take, for example, Germany and poland, neighbours, the eu's biggest member and traditional paymaster and the union's biggest new member.
   拿德国和波兰这两个相邻的国家来做例子，前者是欧盟最大的会员国和财主，后者则是欧盟最大的新成员。
9. But Mr Bolton, a long-time critic of the world body, also warns that patience in America, its biggest paymaster, will not last forever.
   但长期以来对这家国际机构多有批评之辞的博尔顿也警告称，作为联合国最大的出资方，美国的耐心将不会永远保持下去。

noun

1. a person in charge of paying wages