Health hazards from smoking cigarettes, as well as those from secondhand smoke, are well known, but cigarettes can actually pose a threat to you and your family long after you put out that butt.
A payroll is a company's list of its employees, but the term is commonly used to refer to: 1  the total amount of money that a company pays to its employees.2  a company's records of its employees' salaries and wages, bonuses, and withheld taxes. the total amount of money that a company pays to its employees. 2  a company's records of its employees' salaries and wages, bonuses, and withheld taxes. 3  the company's department that calculates and pays these.
Pay is the general term: His pay went up every year. Wage usually designates the pay given at an hourly, daily, or weekly rate, often for manual or semiskilled work; wages usually means the cumulative amount paid at regular intervals for such work: an hourly wage; weekly wages.